| 单词 | rude |
| 释义 | rude 1. a. < a rude sketch > < a few rude benches on which the players usually sat — Edna Ferber > < ornate window facings had broken off, leaving rude gaps in the design — Marcia Davenport > b. of sound < a rude serenade > < the frowning-down of rude intonations and laughing-out of oddities — D.L.Bolinger > c. < rude cotton > < examines, bit by bit, the rude material of knowledge — T.L.Peacock > d. of land < a rude and rocky gorge commences — Tom Marvel > < shelter in a rude country of forests — American Guide Series: Virginia > e. < winter's rude winds > < rude seas > f. < rude estimates > g. < succeeded in constructing a rude steam engine — T.B.Macaulay > < peasants use rude wooden plows — Jack Raymond > < idea that man has progressed from rude beginnings to civilized society — S.F.Mason > h. < the bright rude sun — Gordon Merrick > i. < rude monoliths > j. < community on the outskirts of civilization which continues to maintain itself in rude plenty and comfort — W.H.Mallock > < landscape done in rude whites, blacks, deep browns — Richard Harris > 2. a. < rude mountaineers > b. < even the rude dialects of the illiterate began to acquire dignity — Josiah Royce > < gave to his historical compositions a rude dramatic vigor — Roger Fry > c. < made a rude reply > < his brusqueness did not make him rude — O.S.J.Gogarty > d. < place a rude hand upon our little mare's bridle — Kenneth Roberts > < dragged him with rude cuffs before the magistrate — A.C.Whitehead > < self-discipline and single-mindedness must have been needed to make this rude initiation to the stage endurable — Times Literary Supplement > e. < in the rude ages of society — Adam Smith > < during rude times no man can be useful or faithful to his tribe without courage — C.R.Darwin > f. < arguments for rude virtue are almost inevitably less stimulating than those for sophisticated corruption — Wolcott Gibbs > < ought to … speak the rude truth in all ways — R.W.Emerson > g. < exchanged banter in rude phrases, which at first shocked her — Theodore Dreiser > < paint on which someone had scratched a rude picture — F.D.Ommanney > < unimportant work with a few small, rude words in it — Anthony West > 3. < rude workmanship > < was but a rude scholar > 4. < spoke of the rude health of their children — Joseph Conrad > < the rude strength of the idiom — Gilbert Millstein > 5. a. < freedom that is due for a rude awakening sooner or later — W.J.Reilly > < the change may not be so rude or so sweeping — Douglas Cater > b. < inner strength to endure in the face of rude realities — Americas > Synonyms: < she thought he was rude, and so did he — and tried to philosophize himself out of his sense of social maladjustment — H.S.Canby > < I don't see why we should go to a house where the host apparently enjoys flatly contradicting you … probably he doesn't even know when he's being rude — Sinclair Lewis > ill-mannered stresses great want of knowledge of proprieties, usages, and graces of good society < our Royal Family are getting a little tired of the well-meant, but at the same time ill-mannered homage of well-dressed crowds — London Daily News > < the pompous ill-mannered police — Harper's > discourteous is likely to imply a consciousness of offending or wounding another if not the intent < discourteous enough to slam the door in another's face > < discourteous in pointedly refusing to acknowledge his greeting > impolite suggests less obvious and egregious departures from better conduct < had been somewhat impolite in failing to answer her invitation as quickly as good manners demanded > uncivil indicates lack of decent consideration usually expected among men but not prescribed by any code of etiquette < “comfortable seat, and be damned to you!” was the patient's uncivil reply — Anthony Trollope > ungracious may indicate lack of grace and consideration ensuing through gaucheness, callowness, surliness, irritation < an interesting person, this stern Australian nurse — taciturn, suspicious, ungracious — A. Conan Doyle > Synonyms: < to be ill-bred and rude is intolerable, and the way to be kicked out of company — Earl of Chesterfield > It may suggest intentional discourtesy or ill treatment of others < I do not know whether it came from his own innate depravity or from the promptings of his master, but he was rude enough to set a dog at me — A. Conan Doyle > crude may emphasize a predisposition to the gross, simple, obvious, or primitive and an ignorance of the amenities < they seem pleasant and good-humored, but a little crude, and lacking in the subtler forms of wit and understanding — Rose Macaulay > More than others in this series, crude may suggest an enduring characteristic rather than one from a passing phase < the marks of the thoroughbred were simply not there. The man was blatant, crude, overly confidential … One often observed in him a certain pathetic wistfulness, a reaching out for a grand manner that was utterly beyond him — H.L.Mencken > rough suggests harsh, uncivil, unfeeling action or conduct, but may be concerned more with manifest conduct than inner character < men of a rough and unsparing address should take great care that they be always in the right, the justice and propriety of their sentiments being the only tolerable apology … for such conduct — William Cowper > It may thus suggest outer bluffness rather than inner incivility < a rough old charitable mercifulness, better than sentimental ointment — George Meredith > callow, green, and raw all suggest novices' experiences and situations as causes for lack of savoir faire without indicating stupidity, truculence, or obduracy and without suggesting future inadequacy or gaucherie. callow almost always denotes the immaturity of adolescence or early manhood < not the aggregation of callow schoolboys fresh from the playing fields which in prewar times filled the academic halls, but an assemblage of men whose maturity has been forged in the holocaust of battle — Amy Loveman > green suggests unfamiliarity with a new environment or pursuit < young men who were green recruits last autumn have matured into self-assured and hardened fighting men — F.D.Roosevelt > It may also suggest rustic gullibility < he has taken me for a green country girl, impressed with him because he is from the city and dressed in fine clothes — Sherwood Anderson > raw suggests outward uncertainty or awkward blundering due to lack of experience and training < they think him raw, brusque, and uncultivated. He does not know the ritual … knowledge of which, acquired by long experience, is the mark of fit membership in the society — W.G.Sumner > |
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