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

• It won't do to neglect such work, but it would be dangerous to attend to it exclusively without studying problems. She was businesslike and brusque, with no small talk.
  不办公事不行，但是，单是办公事，不研究问题，那是危险的。她公事公办，不讲絮话，但有时话语唐突。
• She was businesslike and brusque, with no small talk.
  她公事公办，不讲絮话，但有时话语唐突。
• She has quite a brusque manner.
  她态度很唐突无礼。
• 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。
• Walter found his new charge brusque and unapproachable, the hours were incredibly long.
  沃特发现他的新主人说话很少，而且不易接近。时间过得非常长。
• I thought him more sensitive and gentle than his occasionally brusque manner suggested.
  他有时态度粗暴，但我认为他还是较为机灵和文雅的。
• The doctor spoke in a brusque tone.
  医生不客气地简单说了几个字。
• The doctors are brusque and busy
  医生们说话简短生硬，十分忙碌。
• 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。
• His manner was self-assured and brusque
  他态度傲慢无礼。