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brassy

英 ['brɑːsɪ] 美['bræsi]

英英释义实用场景例句

adj. 刺耳的；厚脸皮的；似黄铜的
n. 铜头高尔夫球棍

GRE畅通词汇

词态变化

比较级: brassier;最高级: brassiest;

助记提示

brassy厚脸皮的。
brazen厚脸皮的。

英英释意

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"- Los Angeles Times; "bold-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell

英文词源

brassy (adj.): "impudent," 1570s, from brass + -y (2). Compare brazen. Sense of "debased and pretentious" is from 1580s, from brass as contrasted with gold; sense of "strident and artificial" is from 1865. Related: Brassily; brassiness.

实用场景例句

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

a woman with big brassy earrings.: 戴着黄铜色大耳环的女人

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。

...Alec and his brassy blonde wife...: 亚历克和他俗气的金发太太

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。

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.

Adds silvery brightness to gray hair and neutralizes brassy tones in all shades.: 中和所有颜色秀发的黄铜色,增加灰发的光泽.

The band was now playing some brassy march ( Robert Penn Warren ): 乐队正在演奏铜管乐进行曲 ( 罗伯特佩恩沃伦 )

The young ladies of tennis have been replaced by brassy girls with wicked strokes.: 那些在网球场上活跃的贵妇人已经被一群打起球来异常凶猛而且不可一世的女孩子所取代.

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。

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

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。

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。