effrontery
英 [ɪˈfrʌntəri]
美 [ɪˈfrʌntəri]
n. 厚颜无耻的行为; 傲慢鲁莽的举止
BNC.34635 / COCA.35532
牛津词典
noun
- 厚颜无耻的行为；傲慢鲁莽的举止
behaviour that is confident and very rude, without any feeling of shame
柯林斯词典
- N-UNCOUNT 厚颜无耻;放肆;粗鲁
Effronteryis behaviour that is bold, rude, or disrespectful.- One could only gasp at the sheer effrontery of the man.
那人十足的厚颜无耻让人们吃惊得无话可说。
- One could only gasp at the sheer effrontery of the man.
英英释义
noun
- audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to
- he despised them for their presumptuousness
双语例句
- The effrontery of his deceptions inside and outside the conference room could be enraging.
他在会议室内外放肆的欺骗手段简直令人怒火中烧。 - Gossip is no longer the resource of the idle and vicious, but has become a trade, which is pursued with industry as well as effrontery.
流言蜚语不再是无聊恶毒之徒的资源，而是成为一种奋力和无耻追求的行当。 - A cynic would take one look at the chromic effrontery of the S-class's new grille and think: China.
愤世嫉俗之人会看一眼S级新进气格栅的铬合金装饰条，心里想到：中国。 - He has achieved this partly through sheer verbal effrontery, as in his badmouthing of George bush.
他有今天的成就，部分功劳是他那完全口头的厚颜无耻行为，正如他恶意诋毁美国乔治？布什总统。 - Her total makeover has generated the Internet meme: "If Sister Lotus can lose weight, how do you have the effrontery to stay fat?"
她的蜕变引起网友强烈反响：“连芙蓉姐姐都减肥成功了，你还好意思胖下去吗？” - That indestructible, inward effrontery in the meagre fellow was what made men so down on Michaelis.
蔑克里斯这种不可毁灭的内在的厚颜无耻，便是使男子们憎恶他的原因。 - In the Imperial Japanese Fleet it was suicidal effrontery.
在日本帝国舰队中，这是自杀性的胆大妄为。 - Only a person who is congenitally self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays.
只有生来以自我为中心的人才会厚颜无耻、持之以恒地去写散文。 - They protected themselves from the burning sun with a black umbrella and were quite oblivious to the effrontery of the people who watched them pass by.
她们都擎着黑伞以躲避灼人的阳光，但对同样灼人的路边恬不知耻的观客的目光，她们毫不在意，从容走过。 - At this point I expected to have to quell a revolt, or at least quieten things down while those who objected to this effrontery walked out.
那一刻，我预期自己将不得不平息人们的反驳，或者至少在那些反对这种放肆行为的人起身退场之时，让会场平静下来。