| 正面 | 8046.coarse 英 [kɔːs]美 [kɔrs]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1. course => coarse.2. originally referring to rough cloth for ordinary wear.3. coarse is the adjectival use of course.4. The sense developed from '(following) the usual course' (cf. of course) to 'ordinary, common' to 'lacking refinement', with 'not fine, granular' arising from its application to cloth.adj. 粗糙的；粗俗的；下等的 例句： 1. The voice, less coarse now, stirred her as it had then.现在那声音已不那么刺耳，它又如当年一样让她怦然心动。 coarse 粗糙的来自course 的拼写变体。原指常规的，普通的，后来词义贬义化。 coarsecoarse: [14] For such an everyday word, the origins of coarse are surprisingly clouded. It first appears in the forms corse or course, and meaning ‘ordinary, everyday’, which has led to speculation that it is an application of the noun course, in the sense ‘the ordinary run of things, the usual practice’; however, not all etymologists accept this. The modern spelling coarse became established in the 18th century.coarse (adj.)early 15c., cors "ordinary" (modern spelling is from late 16c.), probably adjectival use of noun cours (see course (n.)), originally referring to rough cloth for ordinary wear. Developed a sense of "rude" c. 1500 and "obscene" by 1711. Perhaps related, via metathesis, to French gros, which had a similar sense development. Related: Coarsely; coarseness." |