impudence

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美

n.  厚颜无耻；冒失，鲁莽；放肆；无礼；无礼的言行

BNC.35579 / COCA.33016

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 放肆的;无礼的
  If you describe someone asimpudent, you mean they are rude or disrespectful, or do something they have no right to do.
  1. Some of them were impudent and insulting.
     他们当中的一些人放肆无礼,目中无人。

英英释义

noun

• the trait of being rude and impertinent
  Synonym:crustgallimpertinenceinsolencecheekinessfreshness
• an impudent statement
  Synonym:cheekimpertinence

双语例句

• His mind was keen, and his will to work was unsurpassed. A rapid intellect and ready eloquence may carry off a little impudence.
  他头脑敏捷，工作意识无人可比。头脑敏捷，口才流利，就能减少冒失。
• My presence in his sanctum was evidently esteemed a piece of impudence too shameful for remark.
  我在他的圣地出现，显然被他看作是羞于提及的莽撞事情。
• He actually had the impudence, or else so forgot himself in his wonder at such an incomprehensible order.
  他胆大包天，或因为对这不可理解的命令大为惊讶而忘了自己的身份。
• I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.
  我没有某些人那么多钱，但我有不下于他们的厚颜无耻，而这是仅次于金钱的东西呢。
• He don't mean no impudence, do you, boy?
  他并不是故意这个样子的，对吧，孩子？
• Robert had the impudence to talk back to his teacher.
  罗伯竟狂妄得跟老师顶嘴。
• The first charge is impudence, or hardness of forehead, a want of holy shame, an unhallowed boldness in evil.
  第一项罪名额坚，这是指厚颜卑鄙，缺少圣洁的羞耻感，或大胆地犯罪。
• How dare you have the impudence to say so!
  你怎么胆敢如此无礼，竟说出那样话来！
• I should have you whipped for your impudence!
  我该因为你的无礼鞭打你！
• Even the names of the four Ministries by which we are governed exhibit a sort of impudence in their deliberate reversal of the facts.
  甚至统治我们的四个部的名称，也说明有意歪曲事实之厚颜无耻到了什么程度。