I will not be bossed around by someone 40 years younger than me.

才不要被一个小40岁的人指气使。

Or in other words, bossy - always telling people what to do!

或者换句话说，指气使 —— 总是告诉别人该做什么！

Smacking me around, bossing me around, thanks, uncle Jerome.

到处打击，指气使，谢谢你，杰罗姆叔叔。

It means you get to boss your sister around.

你可以你姐姐指气使了。

Well, hopefully now she'll stop being so controlling.

希望她在不会再曼尼那么指气使。

After his arrival in 1922, he'd first tried to play the role of a colonial oppressor, only to discover that lording it over the Burmese made him miserable.

1922 年到达后缅甸后，他最初试图扮演殖民压迫者的角色，却发缅甸人指气使让他感到痛苦。

Let's now look at one more word that you can use to soften your recommendations in order to make you seem less bossy.

在再来看一下另外一个能缓和语气使你听起来不那么指气使的单词。

What you saw in England, at least from what I read, is that people got tired of being dictated to by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels.

在的英格兰民众，至少是所了解到的英格兰民众，都厌倦了被比利时那些未的官员指气使。

I would have included the others, but...you know exactly what would've happened. They would've taken over the project and bossed us around.

不是不愿意叫上另外两个，可...你也知道他们来了会怎么样。他们会抢过这个计划，还们指气使。

She bosses me around, finds all the mushrooms and plants faster than me, and steals all my jokes.

她指气使，比更快找到所有的蘑菇和植物，偷所有的笑话。

Meanwhile, we have to watch that dreadful woman parade around the village as if she owned it.

与此同时，还得忍受那女人到处耀武扬威，指气使，好像村子是她的一样。

Always on you all the time.

总是你指气使。

I started thinking maybe she does boss me around a little bit, so I confronted her, things got heated, and now she called a car and she's leaving.

开始想或许她真的有点指气使，所以找她谈了，谈得有点过火，在她叫了车要走了。

But this expression actually reminds me of another expression, to walk all over someone.

但这个表达实际上让想起了另一个表达，即“to walk all over someone”（某人指气使或任意摆布）。

Where he just lorded it over everyone.

他只是每个人都指气使。

And I know that sounds ridiculous, but Jade and I do this for a living.

知道这听起来很荒谬，但杰德和确实以此为生，专门付那些自以为可以女性指气使的暴躁男人。

And so when the servants, taking their tone from their mistress, were insolent and ordered her about, she would hold her head erect and reply to them with a quaint civility which often made them stare at her.

于是，当仆人们效仿女主人的语气，她指气使时，她会昂首挺胸，用一种古怪的礼貌回应他们，这常常让他们目瞪口呆。

And for its part, Britain has more recently pushed away from American English, first as an empire that could afford to condescend to its former colonies, later as a medium-sized power that both admired and fretted about American might.

而英国则在最近一段时间逐渐远离美国英语，最初作为可以前殖民地指气使的帝国， 后来作为一个既羡慕又担忧美国实力的中等强国。

Or is it because she's kind of bossy, makes it feel like school?

还是她有点指气使 让你觉得像小学生？

You got a life. Who am I to tell you what to do?

你有美好人生 凭什么你指气使？