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
- The touch of some hands is an impertinence.
其中，有一些手的触摸是傲慢而无礼的。 - 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。 - He ventured this remark without any intention to insult; but heathcliff's violent nature was not prepared to endure the appearance of impertinence from one whom he seemed to hate, even then, as a rival.
他斗胆说出这番话虽然没有侮辱希斯克利夫的意思，但是希斯克利夫的暴脾气根本就无法忍受这种无礼，尤其是一个他讨厌的人，或者说是对手。 - Elizabeth felt all the impertinence of her questions, but answered them very composedly.
伊丽莎白觉得她这些话问得唐突，不过还是心平气和地回答了他。 - 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。 - 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。 - Such a remark verges on impertinence.
这种话近乎无礼。 - He had the impertinence to demand a raise.
他竟冒失地要求增加工资。 - Instead of a friend in a post-chaise or in a Tilbury, to exchange good things with, and vary the same stale topics over again, for once let me have a truce with impertinence.
这时既没有与马车上的友人相互絮叨佳肴美味之烦&往往这一陈旧题目可以变着样地喋喋不休，我乃能暂免冒失之举。 - A lot of businessmen consider it an impertinence for anyone to mention retirement to them.
许多商人认为，任何人向他们提及退休是一种不礼貌行为。