impudence

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美

n.  厚颜无耻；冒失，鲁莽；放肆；无礼；无礼的言行

BNC.35579 / COCA.33016

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 放肆的;无礼的
  If you describe someone asimpudent, you mean they are rude or disrespectful, or do something they have no right to do.
  1. Some of them were impudent and insulting.
     他们当中的一些人放肆无礼,目中无人。

英英释义

noun

• the trait of being rude and impertinent
  Synonym:crustgallimpertinenceinsolencecheekinessfreshness
• an impudent statement
  Synonym:cheekimpertinence

双语例句

• His impudence provoked her into slapping his face.
  他的鲁莽迫使她打他耳光。
• He was perplexed at such impudence.
  对这种无礼行为他不知道该怎么办。
• Elizabeth had not before believed him quite equal to such assurance; but she sat down, resolving within herself to draw no limits in future to the impudence of an impudent man.
  伊丽莎白从来不相信他竟会这样厚颜无耻，她坐下来思忖道：一个人不要起脸来可真是漫无止境。
• My presence in his sanctum was evidently esteemed a piece of impudence too shameful for remark.
  我在他的圣地出现，显然被他看作是羞于提及的莽撞事情。
• It seemed to her that there would be something of impudence in making a festival of her secret.
  她觉得将自己内心的秘密弄得沸沸扬扬是轻率齿莽的。
• He has the impudence to take things behind my back!
  他背着我拿东西真不害臊！
• I had an air of impudence.
  我表面上趾高气扬。
• I should have you whipped for your impudence!
  我该因为你的无礼鞭打你！
• I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.
  我没有某些人那么多钱，但我有不下于他们的厚颜无耻，而这是仅次于金钱的东西呢。
• Impertinent talk or behaviour; impudence
  无礼的、冒失的、不当的话或行为；厚颜无耻