brusque

英 [bruːsk]

美 [brʌsk]

adj.  寡言而无礼的

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BNC.20023 / COCA.21819

牛津词典

adj.

• 寡言而无礼的
  using very few words and sounding rude
  1. The doctor spoke in a brusque tone.
     医生不客气地简单说了几个字。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 粗鲁的；无理的；唐突的
  If you describe a person or their behaviour asbrusque, you mean that they deal with things, or say things, quickly and shortly, so that they seem to be rude.
  1. The doctors are brusque and busy ...
     医生们说话简短生硬，十分忙碌。
  2. They received a characteristically brusque reply from him.
     他们从他那里得到的是一个粗鲁无礼的答复，他一贯都是那样的。

英英释义

adj

• marked by rude or peremptory shortness
  1. try to cultivate a less brusque manner
  2. a curt reply
  3. the salesgirl was very short with him
  Synonym:bruskcurtshort(p)

双语例句

• His brusque manner did not exactly endear him to his colleagues.
  他的粗鲁使得同事们都不怎么喜欢他。
• Maybe someone is overly brusque, or is always putting urgent or copying everything, Mr. Purdy says.
  珀迪说，有的人可能过于生硬唐突，或者总是在电子邮件上标注紧急，或者什么都抄送。
• This is a brusque, impetuous melody whose tension is underlined by dotted rhythm, wide leaps, and a wide span.
  这是一个粗莽、迅疾的旋律，附点节奏，大跳和宽阔的音域突出了紧张性。
• If summers, brusque and confident to the point of arrogance, had been given the job, he would have done the same thing.
  直率自信、甚至有些自大的萨默斯也能做到，如果他有机会上任的话。
• His keen grey eye, impersonal and brusque, flashed upon her half impatiently.
  他那双锐利的灰色眼睛半带厌烦地扫了她一眼，显得不近人情且粗暴无礼。
• She dropped her head; then, with a brusque movement, she pulled to the door, which closed behind her.
  她低下了头，继而以急促的动作，突然一下把门带上了。
• The doctors are brusque and busy
  医生们说话简短生硬，十分忙碌。
• I made a brusque apology and left.
  我生硬地道了一声歉就离开了。
• The doctor spoke in a brusque tone.
  医生不客气地简单说了几个字。
• She has quite a brusque manner.
  她态度很唐突无礼。