uncouth

英 [ʌnˈkuːθ]

美 [ʌnˈkuːθ]

adj.  粗鲁的; 无礼的; 无教养的

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BNC.20264 / COCA.27951

牛津词典

adj.

• 粗鲁的；无礼的；无教养的
  rude or socially unacceptable
  1. uncouth laughter
     粗野的笑声
  2. an uncouth young man
     一个无教养的年轻人

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （人）粗野的，粗鄙的，粗鲁的
  If you describe a person asuncouth, you mean that their behaviour is rude, noisy, and unpleasant.
  1. ...that oafish, uncouth person.
     那个蠢笨粗野的家伙

英英释义

adj

• lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
  1. he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind
  2. behavior that branded him as common
  3. an untutored and uncouth human being
  4. an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy
  5. appealing to the vulgar taste for violence
  6. the vulgar display of the newly rich
  Synonym:coarsecommonrough-cutvulgar

双语例句

• He behaves in a most uncouth way.
  他的举止真是笨拙。
• ( informal) rural and uncouth.
  （非正式用法）乡下的、笨拙的。
• His gait, his attitudes his gestures, his bearing, his laugh-all were vulgar and uncouth; his manners were the manners of a slave.
  他的步法，他的态度，他的姿势，他的举止，他的笑声一切都是鄙俗而粗野的；他的习气是种奴隶的习气。
• From a distance he looks uncouth.
  远看这人其貌不扬。
• We can no more tolerate her uncouth behaviour!
  我们不能再忍耐她粗俗的行为！
• He made the most uncouth and clumsy gestures of delight.
  他做出的表示快乐的动作也是极笨拙、极难看的。
• Well, until the recent market tumult seemed to render such concerns uncouth at best and asinine at worst.
  但直到最近市场出现动荡之前，此类担忧被认为是不明智的，往坏里说就是愚蠢的。
• The pathway among the woods seemed wilder, more uncouth with its rude natural obstacles and less trodden by the foot of man than he remembered it on his outward journey.
  那林间小路在他看来，比他记忆中来时的途径，似是更加蛮荒，由于天然的高低不平面更加坎坷，而且更少有人迹了。
• The curiosity-dealer, who plainly had not expected his uncouth visitor, seemed disconcerted and embarrassed.
  古玩商人没有料到这位丑陋客人的来访，因此他显得很慌张很不自然。
• Lacking the graces and refinement of civilized life; uncouth.
  粗暴的，粗野的：缺少文明生活的文雅和教养的；不雅的。