high horse

常见例句

Don't ride the high horse.
不要騎高馬；不要擺架子。
Get down off your high horse of being on top of the world.
不要在那麽高傲地認爲你処在世界之巔。
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And the 37-inch high horse is more than happy to help her playmate.
而37英寸高的小馬戴西也非常樂意幫助自己的玩伴。

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.
它逐漸滲入到其它學科,縂之是那個時代的一匹黑馬。
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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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