impertinent
impertinent 英 [ɪmˈpɜ:tɪnənt] 美 [ɪmˈpɜrtnənt]
adj. 不恰当的；无礼的；粗鲁的；不相干的
名词复数:impertinents
- If someone's rude without being openly nasty, like a kid in the back row of class quietly heckling his teacher, you can call him impertinent.
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- adj. 不恰当的；无礼的；粗鲁的；不相干的
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1. Simply that 1% of people, when a stranger knocks on the door wielding a clipboard and impertinent personal questions will say: "Yes, you've found me, I am Gay!
很简单，1%的人被那些舞着资料夹的陌生人敲开房门并粗鲁地问及他们私人问题的时候，会说：“是，被你发现了吭。 我是同性恋！
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2. If he talks with a childish lisp he is called a baby, and if he answers in a grown-up way he is called impertinent.
一旦他说话时口齿不清了，他会被叫作小婴儿，而当以小大人的口吻回答时，他又会被指无礼。
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3. Judged by the standards set by previous Japanese first ladies, it borders on the impertinent.
如果以日本的前任第一夫人为标准，鸠山幸的举止近乎于无礼。
- impertinent (adj.) late 14c., "unconnected, unrelated, not to the point" (now obsolete; OED's last citation is from Coleridge), from Old French impertinent (14c.) or directly from Late Latin impertinentem (nominative impertinens) "not belonging," literally "not to the point," from assimilated form of Latin in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + pertinens (see pertinent). Sense of "rudely bold, uncivil, offensively presumptuous" is from 1680s, from earlier sense of "not appropriate to the situation" (1580s), which probably is modeled on similar use in French, especially by Molière, from notion of meddling in what is beyond one's proper sphere.
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