单词	rube
释义	rube noun ˈrüb  1 : an awkward unsophisticated person : rustic 2 : a naive or inexperienced person Synonyms bumpkin chawbacon churl clodhopper cornball countryman hayseed hick provincial rustic yokel See all Synonyms & Antonyms Example Sentences They treated us as if we were a bunch of rubes. rural voters were tired of being treated as rubes by state officials, who showed interest in them only at election time Recent Examples on the Web Once Internet shopping arrived, customers had instant access to product specs and competitive pricing; only a rube buys a Chevy Silverado without Googling the dealer’s cost. Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022 Being a rube, though, Lucien cannot carry off the performance. Kyle Smith, WSJ, 9 June 2022 Red has utter disdain for Jerry, looking at him as a rube who exists only to help maintain Red’s place at the top of the pyramid. Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2022 Tom, that ineffectual rube from Minnesota who swallowed his own semen at his bachelor party. Scott Tobias, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2021 Thalberg robbed the Marx Brothers of their anarchy and Keaton of his elegance, turning him, as Stevens complains, into a mere stock rube figure. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022 Macdonald liked to portray himself as a rube from small-town Canada, yet could conjure opinions on such matters as the merits of competing Proust translations. New York Times, 25 Dec. 2021 The whole thing took on a grifter-and-rube dynamic at the worst moment. Joe Delessio, Curbed, 15 Apr. 2021 Salt was my friend, too, because to undersalt something is to be a rube. Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2021 See More Word History Etymology Rube, nickname for Reuben First Known Use 1891, in the meaning defined at sense 1 rube noun as in hick an awkward or simple person especially from a small town or the country rural voters were tired of being treated as rubes by state officials, who showed interest in them only at election time Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance hick bumpkin yokel hayseed peasant clown provincial rustic cornball mountaineer boor countryman clodhopper greenhorn tenderfoot churl lout oaf gawk peon chawbacon backwoodsman clod Antonyms & Near Antonyms cosmopolitan sophisticate cosmopolite slicker suburbanite smoothie metropolitan urbanite smoothy See More
随便看	play for time play forward play games play God play gym play hard to get play hell with play hookey play hooky play host to play into play into (someone's) hands play into hands play into someone's hands play into the hands of someone play it by ear play it cool play it safe play it smart play itself out play lead play make-believe play merry hell with play money play nice

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