high horse

常见例句

Don't ride the high horse.
不要骑高马；不要摆架子。
Get down off your high horse of being on top of the world.
不要在那么高傲地认为你处在世界之巅。
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And the 37-inch high horse is more than happy to help her playmate.
而37英寸高的小马戴西也非常乐意帮助自己的玩伴。

Today,if a girl acts like she is better than everyone else, you might say she should get off her high horse.
It began to infiltrate other disciplines and was in general a high-spirited horse for that certain period of time.
它逐渐渗入到其它学科,总之是那个时代的一匹黑马。
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As each wave came, the boat rose and fell, like a horse starting toward a fence too high to jump.

In modern times, we deny the tension, often choosing the self-righteous high horse on one side or the other and color coding our decisions according to partisan loyalties that both belong to Hermes.
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The scene of their encounter—at a pompous royal procession, where he is perched atop a high horse and the maiden is packed among street-level gawkers—is an elaborate masterpiece of montage equal to any in Eisenstein.
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