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
- Why are you showing such effrontery?
你为什么表现的如此放肆？ - He had the effrontery to suggest that she enjoyed being unhappy.
他无耻地大胆暗示，她喜欢不幸。 - He admired the effrontery with which she bargained.
他挺佩服她讨价还价的那股泼辣劲。 - How can he have had the effrontery to say "piss off!" to you?
他怎么会这样无耻，竟然对你“滚开！”呢？ - He arrived late, was silent all evening and then had the effrontery to complain that I looked bored!
他姗姗来迟，整个晚上一声不响，然后竟有脸抱怨我看起来很无聊。 - 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。 - 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。 - For them to front an evil with plain speech is to be guilty of effrontery.
对他们来说，与魔鬼开诚布公的讲话是一种厚颜无耻的罪过。 - 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。 - 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。