brassy

英['brɑːsi] 美['bræsi]
  • adj. 似黄铜的；厚脸皮的
brassily brassier brassiest brassiness
GRE

详细释义

Adjective:
  1. resembling the sound of a brass instrument

  2. tastelessly showy;

    "a flash car"
    "a flashy ring"
    "garish colors"
    "a gaudy costume"
    "loud sport shirts"
    "a meretricious yet stylish book"
    "tawdry ornaments"

  3. unrestrained by convention or propriety;

    "an audacious trick to pull"
    "a barefaced hypocrite"
    "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"
    "bald-faced lies"
    "brazen arrogance"
    "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"

双语例句

1. Those ladies were brassy and busty, with pudgy fingers and painted eyes.
那些女人们打扮花哨，体态丰满，手指肥肥的，眼睛都涂了眼影。

来自柯林斯例句

2. Musicians blast their brassy jazz from street corners.
玩音乐的人在街角大声弹奏起尖锐刺耳的爵士乐。

来自柯林斯例句

3. the brassy blonde behind the bar
酒吧柜台里衣着艳俗的金发女郎

来自《权威词典》

4. From the telescreen a brassy female voice was squalling a patriotic song.
电幕上一个低沉的女人声音在唱一支爱国歌曲.

来自英汉文学

5. The brassy boys put their tongues out at us.
那些厚脸皮的男孩儿朝着我们伸舌头。

来自辞典例句

用法讲解

相关词汇

【邻近词汇】

brat brassiere brassylate brassy eye brassysily brassy body brassysiness Brassy cough brassy bodies brassylic acid Brassy-breasted Tanager
展开全文

大家正在查

benzene是什么意思 benzenoid是什么意思 benzidine是什么意思 benzine是什么意思 benzoate是什么意思 benzoic是什么意思 benzoin是什么意思 benzol是什么意思 benzoline是什么意思 benzoyl是什么意思