英语单词 | insolent |
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英美音标 | ['insələnt] |
中文释义 | n.侮慢无礼的人 adj.傲慢的,无礼的,侮慢的 |
vocabulary简明 | Someone who's insolent is either really doing her own thing, even if it goes against what everyone else is doing, or she’s mildly disrespectful. |
vocabulary扩展 | That student in your class who is constantly snubbing the teacher, snorting when he gives assignments, and rolling her eyes when he reads passages aloud from your vocabulary textbook? Insolent, definitely insolent. There might be another student who adorns her school uniform with pins and ribbons, cuts her hair shorter than the dress code allows, and rolls her socks down. This student is also insolent, in the sense that she defies the rules. |
柯林斯星级 | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]傲慢的;无礼的;侮慢的 If you say that someone is being insolent, you mean they are being rude to someone they ought to be respectful to.
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