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

• 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。
• A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement.
  粗鲁粗俗教养不好缺乏文明和文雅的人。
• ( of behavior) rustic and uncouth.
  （指举止）粗俗笨拙。
• He behaves in a most uncouth way.
  他的举止真是笨拙。
• Many Hong Kong residents view the crowds of shopping mainlanders as uncouth and resent their presence as a sign of Beijing's growing influence on the self-governing city's affairs.
  许多香港市民认为赴港购物的大陆游客素质低，而且认为他们的到来是北京对香港事务影响力越来越大的一种迹象，并因此而感到厌恶。
• Used of persons and their behavior; not refined; uncouth. Although it is often vulgar and unrefined, its implied meaning can be both deep and eloquent.
  用来指人和他们的行为；不文雅的；粗俗的；。它虽然不雅，甚至粗俗，但却具有极强的表意功能。
• To a Japanese, spilling anything is uncouth.
  对日本人来说，泼溅任何东西都是不文明的。
• 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 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。
• 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。