impertinence
impertinence 英 [ɪm'pɜ:tɪnəns] 美 [ɪmˈpɚtnəns]
n. 鲁莽，无理；不恰当
名词复数:impertinences
- You have to be sure your teacher has a good sense of humor before you criticize the way he dresses, otherwise you might be scolded for your impertinence. Impertinence means "being rude, insolent, or inappropriately playful."
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- n. 鲁莽，无理；不恰当
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1. To the engineers who dominate China’s leadership, the rivers’ wildness must seem an impertinence.
对于控制中国领导层的工程师们而言，河流的原始状态一定显得鲁莽突兀。
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2. He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to be loved or hated again.
他把爱和恨都掩盖起来，至于被人爱或恨，他又认为是一种鲁莽的事。
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3. 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。
- impertinence (n.) c. 1600, "incivility," from French impertinence, from impertinent (see impertinent). Meaning "irrelevance" is from 1620s. Impertinency is from 1580s as "a triviality, an absurdity."
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