| 单词 | coarse |
| 释义 | coarse 1. < of what coarse metal ye are molded — Shakespeare > 2. a. < coarse sand > : loose or rough in texture < coarse skin > < the Southern textile industry developed first in … coarse goods; the North went in for medium and fine grade yarns — American Guide Series: Rhode Island > b. < coarse imitations, completely lacking in the original delicacy > < a coarse heavy face, loose-featured, red and sensual — Thomas Wolfe > c. of paper d. < a coarse saw with large teeth > < a high-speed milling cutter with coarse pitch > e. < to fill in the details of the rather coarse picture obtained by the earlier studies > < one dial for coarse adjustment, one for fine > f. medicine, of a tremor < a coarse tremor of the extremities > 3. a. < many of the muckraking novels … were simple parables of the coarse businessman and the sensitive intellectual — Bernard De Voto > b. 4. a. dialect, of the weather b. dialect Britain, of persons or circumstances 5. < the coarse jangling of ordinary bells — G.B.Shaw > — used also of certain sounds heard in auscultation in pathological states of the chest < coarse rales > Synonyms: < he was forever making eyes at me — a coarse, puffy-faced, red-moustached young man, with his hair plastered down on each side of his forehead. I thought he was perfectly hateful … — A. Conan Doyle > < the landlady who had tyrannized over her when ill-humoured and unpaid, or when pleased had treated her with a coarse familiarity scarcely less odious — W.M.Thackeray > In this sense, vulgar, a stronger term, describes what offends good taste or decency and may suggest boorishness < his passion for physical luxury nakedly revealed itself as simply the vulgar longing of the idle rich for conspicuous waste — Granville Hicks > < her father is a … vulgar person, mean in his ideals and obtuse in his manners — John Erskine †1951 > < it was, in fact, the mouth that gave his face its sensual, sly, and ugly look, for a loose and vulgar smile seemed constantly to hover about its thick coarse edges — Thomas Wolfe > gross stresses crude animal inclinations and lack of refinement < merely gross, a scatological rather than a pornographic impropriety — Aldous Huxley > < Clif Clawson, at forty, was gross. His face was sweaty, and puffy with pale flesh; his voice was raw; he fancied checked Norfolk jackets, tight across his swollen shoulders and his beefy hips — Sinclair Lewis > < a spirituelle amoureuse, she is repelled by the gross or the voluptuary — S.N.Behrman > obscene is the strongest of this group in stressing impropriety, indecency, or nastiness < it was, of course, easy to pick out a line here and there … which was frank to indecency, yet certainly not obscene — H.S.Canby > < his innate belief that human flesh is in some way obscene. In the old days artists … had painted decently and had draped their figures — Ellen Glasgow > < there are depths beneath depths in what happened last night — obscure fetid chambers of the human soul. Black hatreds, unnatural desires, hideous impulses, obscene ambitions are at the bottom of it — W.H.Wright > ribald suggests rough merriment or crude humor at the irreverent, scurrilous, or vulgar < they had their backs to him, shaking wih the loose laughter which punctuates a ribald description — Mary Austin > < a ribald folksong about fleas in the straw — J.L.Lowes > |
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