pontificates
基本解释
- v.武斷地或自封爲權威地談論某事物
- n.(教皇的)職位或任期
英汉例句
- Politicians like to pontificate the reason about falling standards.
政治家喜歡自大地表示下降標準的原因。 - He sat there pontificating about the legal system although it was clear that he knew very little about it.
他坐在那兒發表他對法制的高論,雖然他對此一竅不通。 - His was the second-longest pontificate.
他任職教宗時間是第二長的。 - The central meaning of his pontificate is to restore papal authority
他任職教皇的中心意圖就是要恢複教皇權力