presumptuous

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It is too presumptuous of him to do so.
他這樣做太放肆了。
《新英漢大辭典》
And as I said, presumptuous of me to say this, if that occurs and continues to occur, it will benefit the whole world.
如我所說，恕我冒昧這樣說，當(dāng)那種情況出現(xiàn)并且繼續(xù)出現(xiàn)時(shí)，全世界都將受益。
Clearly, it is presumptuous and immoral for a small group of individuals to keep these things under wraps while there is so much misery on the planet.
顯然地，一小群人把這些事情保密起來而還有很多人在承受那么多的苦難，這是專橫和邪惡的。

What could possibly be more presumptuous than the association of the beginning of one's own career, one's own literary career, with the birth of the Christian messiah?
還有什么能夠比,把自己事業(yè)的開端，自己的文學(xué)生涯，與基督教救世主的誕生相提并論更膽大妄為的？
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選
There's a fear here that the ambition of this bid for paternal light is presumptuous, perhaps it's even satanic Satan of course in the next book, Book Four will have his invocation to light.
人們會(huì)擔(dān)心彌爾頓認(rèn)為光與上帝差不多的想法,過于膽大妄為，或許是極惡的,當(dāng)然，第四卷里的撒旦,也會(huì)祈求光明。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選
As presumptuous as that desire is, to come before Homer or to come before Virgil, it's by no means the final sense, I think, of Milton's ambitious drive to be first. Milton invokes the same heavenly muse here who inspired Moses, that shepherd.
盡管想要先于荷馬或維吉爾的雄心,很冒失，這卻絕不是彌爾頓想要做第一，的壯志的終點(diǎn)，他在這里所寫的,繆斯正是那個(gè)啟示了牧羊人摩西的繆斯。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選

Once I got past my worries about seeming presumptuous, the actual negotiation was easy.
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A person who is presumptuous shows little respect for others by doing things they have no right to do.

If you describe someone or their behaviour as presumptuous, you disapprove of them because they are doing something that they have no right or authority to do.