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。

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，那么在被如承的情况下，她可能会变得令人难以忍受。

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峻，微微扬起的眉头显露出一种专横跋扈的气势。

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.

这个想法源自年初发生在巴黎一家三星级餐厅的事故。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。