asperity
asperity 英 [æˈsperəti] 美 [æˈspɛrɪti]
n. （表面的）粗糙；（气候等的）严酷；艰苦的条件；（性格）粗暴
名词复数:asperities
- Asperity is the harsh tone or behavior people exhibit when they’re angry, impatient, or just miserable. When your supervisor’s “Late again!” greeting causes your entire future to pass before your eyes, he is speaking with asperity.
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- n. （表面的）粗糙；（气候等的）严酷；艰苦的条件；（性格）粗暴
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1. " answered her mother, with an asperity that she had never permitted to herself before.
她母亲回答说，语气之严厉，是她以前从来不准自己有的。
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2. Recall the attributes of wabi-sabi: asymmetry, asperity, simplicity, modesty, intimacy, and the suggestion of a natural process.
回顾一下wabi -sabi的特性：不对称，粗糙，简单，朴素，亲切，合乎自然过程的联想。
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3. But here he was set right by Mrs. Bennet, who assured him with some asperity that they were very well able to keep a good cook, and that her daughters had nothing to do in the kitchen.
她相当不客气地跟他说，她们家里现在还雇得起一个象样的厨子，根本用不到女儿们过问厨房里的事。
- asperity (n.) c. 1200, asprete "hardship," from Old French asperité "difficulty, painful situation, harsh treatment" (12c., Modern French âpreté), a figurative use, from Latin asperitatem (nominative asperitas) "roughness," from asper "rough, harsh," which is of unknown origin. The Latin adjective was used also of sour wine, bad weather, and hard times. Figurative meaning "harshness of feeling" in English is attested from 1660s; literal sense of "roughness of surface" is from early 15c.
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