| 单词 | crude |
| 释义 | crude (once / 364 pages) 1adj 2n Is it gross? Unsophisticated? Totally tasteless and positively offensive? Then you can describe it as crude. Crude is not rude when it’s used to describe unprocessed oil, which it first was associated with in 1865. From the Latin crudo, meaning "rough, raw," crude today can be used to describe anything or anyone that's unrefined and rough around the edges. So don’t be too insulted by the large-nosed portrait that cartoonist made for you. It’s just a quick, crude drawing meant to be funny. WORD FAMILYcrude: crudely, crudeness, cruder, crudes, crudest, crudity+/crudeness: crudenesses/crudity: crudities USAGE EXAMPLESInternational Brent crude oil LCOc1 was yet to trade after closing up 68 cents at $56.82 per barrel on Friday. Reuters(Jan 02, 2017) Trading in several commodities, including crude oil, was closed on Monday. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) This format imposes a crude narrative structure on the day’s events, with peril ultimately usurped by a happy, or at least whimsical, conclusion. The New Yorker(Dec 31, 2016) 1 1adj belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man Syn primitive, rude early being or occurring at an early stage of development 2adj not carefully or expertly made managed to make a crude splint a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them Syn rough unskilled not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency 3adj not refined or processed crude oil Syn|Ant unprocessed, unrefined processed, refined freed from impurities by processing 4adj not processed or subjected to analysis only the crude vital statistics Syn raw unanalyzed not analyzed or broken down for detailed examination 5adj devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment the crude facts Syn blunt, stark unconditional, unconditioned not conditional 6adj conspicuously and tastelessly indecent 2a crude joke crude behavior Syn earthy, gross, vulgar indecent offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters n a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons Syn|Hypo|Hyper crude oil, fossil oil, oil, petroleum, rock oil resid, residual oil oil products that remain after petroleum has been distilled fossil fuel fuel consisting of the remains of organisms preserved in rocks in the earth's crust with high carbon and hydrogen content oila slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water |
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