impudence

英

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

• Valuations of mining companies have soared in the current commodities boom. I had an air of impudence.
  很多矿业公司的市值也由于这次期货价格的上扬而随之上扬。我表面上趾高气扬。
• 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。
• Nay, when I read a letter of his, I cannot help giving him the preference even over Wickham, much as I value the impudence and hypocrisy of my son-in-law.
  唔，我每次读到他的信，总觉得他比韦翰还要讨我喜欢。我那位女婿虽然又冒失又虚伪，还是及不上他。
• I had an air of impudence.
  我表面上趾高气扬。
• I was amazed at his impudence.
  他竟然无耻到这种地步使我感到惊愕。
• Her impudence bowled me over.
  她的厚颜使我大为吃惊。
• 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。
• 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。
• He don't mean no impudence, do you, boy?
  他并不是故意这个样子的，对吧，孩子？
• 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。