brusque

英 [bruːsk]

美 [brʌsk]

adj.  寡言而无礼的

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BNC.20023 / COCA.21819

牛津词典

adj.

• 寡言而无礼的
  using very few words and sounding rude
  1. The doctor spoke in a brusque tone.
     医生不客气地简单说了几个字。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 粗鲁的；无理的；唐突的
  If you describe a person or their behaviour asbrusque, you mean that they deal with things, or say things, quickly and shortly, so that they seem to be rude.
  1. The doctors are brusque and busy ...
     医生们说话简短生硬，十分忙碌。
  2. They received a characteristically brusque reply from him.
     他们从他那里得到的是一个粗鲁无礼的答复，他一贯都是那样的。

英英释义

adj

• marked by rude or peremptory shortness
  1. try to cultivate a less brusque manner
  2. a curt reply
  3. the salesgirl was very short with him
  Synonym:bruskcurtshort(p)

双语例句

• Eleanor was brusque and firm and businesslike.
  埃莉诺态度粗暴，意志坚定、办事认真。
• She has quite a brusque manner.
  她态度很唐突无礼。
• He is never brusque with his comrades.
  他对同志从不疾言厉色。
• The traditionally Atlanticist Poles felt sidelined not just by the policy implications of Mr Obama's reset of relations with Russia, but by the brusque way in which they were told to play along.
  波兰人是传统的大西洋主义者。不仅在奥巴马的重置和对俄罗斯关系上保持观望，而且在对粗暴地要求他们参与其中上也保持观望。
• They received a characteristically brusque reply from him.
  他们从他那里得到的是一个粗鲁无礼的答复，他一贯都是那样的。
• The doctor spoke in a brusque tone.
  医生不客气地简单说了几个字。
• She dropped her head; then, with a brusque movement, she pulled to the door, which closed behind her.
  她低下了头，继而以急促的动作，突然一下把门带上了。
• If summers, brusque and confident to the point of arrogance, had been given the job, he would have done the same thing.
  直率自信、甚至有些自大的萨默斯也能做到，如果他有机会上任的话。
• She is also wonderful for someone who doesn't pick up on social cues: Siri's responses are not entirely predictable, but they are predictably kind& even when Gus is brusque.
  Siri对那些读不懂社交信号的人来说也很有帮助：她的回复虽不全在意料之中，但却一定是友好的&即使在格斯鲁莽时。
• Explain as little as possible without being brusque.
  解释要少而得体。