impertinence
英 [ɪmˈpɜːtɪnəns]
美 [ɪmˈpɜːrtnəns]
n. 不礼貌; 傲慢; 莽撞
impertinency的复数
BNC.24303 / COCA.30600
柯林斯词典
- N-VAR 不礼貌;傲慢;莽撞
If someone talks or behaves in a rather impolite and disrespectful way, you can call this behaviourimpertinenceoran impertinence.- He was punished for his impertinence.
他因为冒失无礼受到惩罚。
- He was punished for his impertinence.
英英释义
noun
- inappropriate playfulness
- the trait of being rude and impertinent
- an impudent statement
双语例句
- You'll apologize to me for your impertinence, or you'll quit the office instantly!
你这样放肆，非向我道歉不可！不然，你给我马上滚！ - Marianne, who had never much toleration for anything like impertinence, vulgarity, inferiority of parts, or even difference of taste from herself.
玛丽安对于无礼，粗俗，才能低下，甚至与自己的爱好不相同这类事情都是不能容忍的。 - The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. It was difficult to remain equanimous in the face of such preposterous impertinence.
一个人跟老朋友生离死别可以处之泰然。面对着述种荒谬无礼的行为，很难处之泰然。 - Beauty is well known to draw after it the persecutions of impertinence, to incite the artifices of envy, and to raise the flames of unlawful love. ( No.111)
在无礼的干扰下，人们知道，美丽能刺激嫉妒的技巧，扇起非法之爱的火焰。 - Jones was a little offended by the impertinence of partridge.
琼斯对巴特里奇的这种唐突有些气恼。 - He will consider it an impertinence.
他会认为那是很冒失的行为。 - Boldness in someone so young is sometimes seen as impertinence.
一个如此年轻的人的大胆有时被看作是无礼的举动。 - He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to be loved or hated again.
他默默的爱，默默的恨，却又把被爱和被恨看作是不应时宜的工作。 - Lady Catherine seemed quite astonished at not receiving a direct answer; and Elizabeth suspected herself to be the first creature who had ever dared to trifle with so much dignified impertinence!
咖苔琳夫人没有得到直截了当的回答，显得很惊奇；伊丽莎白觉得敢于和这种没有礼貌的富贵太太开玩笑，恐怕要推她自己为第一个人。 - To the engineers who dominate China's leadership, the rivers'wildness must seem an impertinence.
在那些中国水电业内占主流的工程师们看来，未开发的河流必定是不能容忍的资源浪费。