Even Tommasini, who had advocated Gilbert's appointment in the Times, calls him “an unpretentious musician with no air of the formidable conductor about him.”

低调的音乐家，在他身上找不到那种飞扬跋扈的指挥家的气质。

The idea came after an incident early this year at a three-star restaurant in Paris.Plenty of people have since come forward to complain of the treatment they received from despotic superiors.

这个想法源自初发生在巴黎一家三星级餐厅的事。此后，很多人开始控诉他们在跋扈的上级那里得到的不公平待遇。

The well-known face was there: stern, relentless as ever—there was that peculiar eye which nothing could melt, and the somewhat raised, imperious, despotic eyebrow.

那张熟悉的脸庞依旧在那里，一如既往地严厉无情——那双眼睛透着一种难以融化的冷，扬起的眉头显露出一种专横跋扈的气势。

If she had been a self-opinionated, domineering child, she might have become disagreeable enough to be unbearable through being so much indulged and flattered.

如果她是个自以为是、专横跋扈的孩子，那么在被如此纵容和奉承的情况下，她可能会变得令人难以忍受。