haughty: [16] To be haughty is to be ‘above oneself’, or, to put it another way, to be ‘on one’s high horse’. For etymologically, haughty means simply ‘high’. It is an alteration of an earlier, now dead English adjective haught, which was borrowed from Old French haut ‘high’, a descendant of Latin altus (whence English altitude). => altitude
haughty (adj.)
"proud and disdainful," 1520s, a redundant extension of haught (q.v.) "high in one's own estimation" by addition of -y (2) on model of might/mighty, naught/naughty, etc. Middle English also had hautif in this sense (mid-15c., from Old French hautif), and hautein "proud, haughty, arrogant; presumptuous" (c. 1300), from Old French hautain. Related: Haughtily.
例文
1. He gave me a haughty look and walked away.
彼は私に傲慢な表情をして立ち去った。
2.They were displeased with her haughty airs.
彼らは彼女の傲慢な態度を嫌っている。
3.He is haughty to us.
彼は私たちに対して傲慢だ。
4.A haughty girl is always unpopular at school.
自慢の女の子は学校ではモテないことが多い。
5."Wen-wan，don 't tell him，'said Hsin-mei in a haughty ，jealous tone.