impertinence
英 [ɪmˈpɜːtɪnəns]
美 [ɪmˈpɜːrtnəns]
n. 不礼貌; 傲慢; 莽撞
impertinency的复数
BNC.24303 / COCA.30600
柯林斯词典
- N-VAR 不礼貌;傲慢;莽撞
If someone talks or behaves in a rather impolite and disrespectful way, you can call this behaviourimpertinenceoran impertinence.- He was punished for his impertinence.
他因为冒失无礼受到惩罚。
- He was punished for his impertinence.
英英释义
noun
- inappropriate playfulness
- the trait of being rude and impertinent
- an impudent statement
双语例句
- They had the impertinence to say I stole the money.
他们说我偷了那笔钱,实在是荒谬。 - We'll discuss your impertinence later, young lady.
我们等会儿再讨论你的粗鲁行为,小姐。 - To the engineers who dominate China's leadership, the rivers'wildness must seem an impertinence.
在那些中国水电业内占主流的工程师们看来,未开发的河流必定是不能容忍的资源浪费。 - The driver of that taxi-cab seemed to me familiar to the point of impertinence
那辆出租车的司机在我看来放肆到了无礼的地步。 - Her manner were pronounced to be very bad indeed, a mixture of pride and impertinence; she had no conversation, no style, no taste, no beauty.
她的举止被人在背后议论的很糟:她是既傲慢又不懂事的混合物,不会说话,没有风度,令人乏味,一点美感也没有。 - He ventured this remark without any intention to insult; but heathcliff's violent nature was not prepared to endure the appearance of impertinence from one whom he seemed to hate, even then, as a rival.
他斗胆说出这番话虽然没有侮辱希斯克利夫的意思,但是希斯克利夫的暴脾气根本就无法忍受这种无礼,尤其是一个他讨厌的人,或者说是对手。 - You'll apologize to me for your impertinence, or you'll quit the office instantly!
你这样放肆,非向我道歉不可!不然,你给我马上滚! - The touch of some hands is an impertinence.
其中,有一些手的触摸是傲慢而无礼的。 - Instead of a friend in a post-chaise or in a Tilbury, to exchange good things with, and vary the same stale topics over again, for once let me have a truce with impertinence.
这时既没有与马车上的友人相互絮叨佳肴美味之烦&往往这一陈旧题目可以变着样地喋喋不休,我乃能暂免冒失之举。 - Beauty is well known to draw after it the persecutions of impertinence, to incite the artifices of envy, and to raise the flames of unlawful love. ( No.111)
在无礼的干扰下,人们知道,美丽能刺激嫉妒的技巧,扇起非法之爱的火焰。