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。 - 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。 - Gerald upbraided pork for his impertinence, but he knew that he was right.
杰拉尔德责骂波克的无礼,但他知道他是对的。 - Black: Stand for fair and square; the exhibition is angry, impertinence and honest.
黑色:表现公正无私的;表现暴躁、鲁莽、耿直的。 - Marianne, who had never much toleration for anything like impertinence, vulgarity, inferiority of parts, or even difference of taste from herself.
玛丽安对于无礼,粗俗,才能低下,甚至与自己的爱好不相同这类事情都是不能容忍的。 - He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to be loved or hated again.
他默默的爱,默默的恨,却又把被爱和被恨看作是不应时宜的工作。 - You may as well call it impertinence at once. It was very little less.
你还不如说是唐突,十足唐突。 - He had the impertinence to demand a raise.
他竟冒失地要求增加工资。 - He ventured this remark without any intention to insult; but heathcliff's violent nature was not prepared to endure the appearance of impertinence from one whom he seemed to hate, even then, as a rival.
他斗胆说出这番话虽然没有侮辱希斯克利夫的意思,但是希斯克利夫的暴脾气根本就无法忍受这种无礼,尤其是一个他讨厌的人,或者说是对手。 - 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。