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

• It's dirty and has an uncouth culture.
  那里脏兮兮的，文化又粗俗。
• The Chinese disciples of Pareto might have thought him uncouth.
  巴莱托的中国门徒们也许要嫌他粗鲁的吧。
• We can no more tolerate her uncouth behaviour!
  我们不能再忍耐她粗俗的行为！
• He behaves in a most uncouth way.
  他的举止真是笨拙。
• 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。
• The sibyl(" witch "is such an uncouth label) responded with a supply constriction designed to drive up the price.
  女预言家（女巫听上去让人不太舒服）用限制供应的方法来应对，意在推升价格。
• 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。
• ( of behavior) rustic and uncouth. was boorish and insensitive; the loutish manners of a bully; her stupid oafish husband; aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude.
  （指举止）粗俗笨拙。是粗野愚钝的；欺凌弱小者的粗鄙的举止；她愚钝的丈夫。
• 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 durable denim pants were brought to market by Levi Strauss, a Jewish merchant living in San Francisco, to meet the needs of uncouth miners in California's gold fields.
  为了满足加利福尼亚的那些大老粗金矿工人的需要，住在旧金山的犹太商人李维•施特劳斯将这种结实耐磨的牛仔裤引进了市场。