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
- 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。 - 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。 - Jones was a little offended by the impertinence of partridge.
琼斯对巴特里奇的这种唐突有些气恼。 - If you do not choose to understand me, forgive my impertinence. Your uncle is as much surprised as I am& and nothing but the belief of your being a party concerned would have allowed him to act as he has done.
如果你一定装作听不懂我的话,那只有请你原谅我失礼了。你舅父也跟我同样地诧异,我们都认为,达西所以要那样做,完全是为了你的缘故。 - Dissent can seem like impertinence.
不同意见有可能显得莽撞无礼。 - 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 absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. It was difficult to remain equanimous in the face of such preposterous impertinence.
一个人跟老朋友生离死别可以处之泰然。面对着述种荒谬无礼的行为,很难处之泰然。 - A lot of businessmen consider it an impertinence for anyone to mention retirement to them.
许多商人认为,任何人向他们提及退休是一种不礼貌行为。 - Lady Catherine seemed quite astonished at not receiving a direct answer; and Elizabeth suspected herself to be the first creature who had ever dared to trifle with so much dignified impertinence!
咖苔琳夫人没有得到直截了当的回答,显得很惊奇;伊丽莎白觉得敢于和这种没有礼貌的富贵太太开玩笑,恐怕要推她自己为第一个人。