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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 of·fi·cious /əˈfɪʃəs/
 (a.)多管閒事的,非官方的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Of·fi·cious a.
 1. Pertaining to, or being in accordance with, duty. [R.]
    If there were any lie in the case, it could be no more than an officious and venial one.   --Note on Gen. xxvii. (Douay version).
 2. Disposed to serve; kind; obliging. [Archaic]
 Yet not to earth are those bright luminaries
 Officious.   --Milton.
    They were tolerably well bred, very officious, humane, and hospitable.   --Burke.
 3. Importunately interposing services; intermeddling in affairs in which one has no concern; meddlesome.
 You are too officious
 In her behalf that scorns your services.   --Shak.
 Syn: -- Impertinent; meddling.  See Impertinent.
 -- Of*fi*cious*ly, adv. -- Of*fi*cious*ness, n.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 officious
      adj : intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; "an interfering
            old woman"; "bustling about self-importantly making an
            officious nuisance of himself"; "busy about other
            people's business" [syn: interfering, meddlesome, meddling,
             busy, busybodied]