saucy
英 ['sɔːsɪ]
美['sɔsi]
- adj. 俏丽的，漂亮的，活泼的；无礼的，卤莽的，莽撞的
词态变化
比较级: saucier;最高级: sauciest;副词: saucily;
中文词源
saucy 粗俗的，色情的
sauce,粗俗行为，-y,形容词后缀。
英英释意
- 1. characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality;
- "a certain irreverent gaiety and ease of manner"
- 2. improperly forward or bold;
- "don't be fresh with me"
- "impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup"
- "an impudent boy given to insulting strangers"
英文词源
- saucy (adj.)
- c. 1500, "resembling sauce," later "impertinent, flippantly bold, cheeky" (1520s), from sauce (n.) + -y (2). The connecting notion is the figurative sense of "piquancy in words or actions." Compare sauce malapert "impertinence" (1520s), and slang phrase to have eaten sauce "be abusive" (1520s). Also compare salty in same senses.
实用场景例句
- He was saucy and mischievous when he was working.
- 他工作时总爱调皮捣蛋.
《简明英汉词典》
- She is a saucy little miss!
- 她是个黄毛丫头!
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- The saucy little girl from Hartford promptly corrected his idea.
- 活泼爽直的哈特福德姑娘马上修正他的主张.
辞典例句
- She was tall , slim, rather swarthy, with large saucy eyes.
- 她瘦高个, 皮肤黝黑, 有一双漂亮的大眼睛.
辞典例句
- The saucy child protruded her tongue.
- 这无礼的孩子伸出了她的舌头.
辞典例句
- Perhaps I was too saucy and provoking.
- 可能是我太莽撞无礼,咄咄逼人了.
辞典例句
- She is a saucy miss.
- 她是个莽撞的女孩.
辞典例句
- This rather saucy assumption failed in being offensive.
- 这种颇为轻盈活泼的傲慢并不冒犯任何人.
辞典例句
- Don't be so saucy with me!
- 别对我这么傲慢无礼!
辞典例句
- She holds her head high, and probably can be saucy enough where she dare.
- 她趾高气扬, 也许在她敢于放肆的时候,会很放肆的.
辞典例句
- The teacher didn't like the boy's remarks and told him not to be saucy.
- 老师不喜欢那孩子说的话,告诉他不得无礼.
辞典例句
- Tom got the bird for being saucy to the manager.
- 汤姆因为对经理不礼貌而被解雇了.
互联网
- The office boy got the bird for being saucy to the director.
- 这个勤杂员由于冒犯局长而被解雇了.
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- It was saucy of you to contradict your boss.
- 你顶撞你的老板真是没礼貌.
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- Fred is very saucy.
- 佛瑞德很无礼.
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