rube
rube 英 [ruːb] 美
n. 乡巴佬；土包子 adj. 土里土气的；像乡巴佬的
名词复数:rubes
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- n. 乡巴佬；土包子
- adj. 土里土气的；像乡巴佬的
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1. “I was a customer, and he was a trusty icer, recently off the turnip truck, ” Niederhoffer recalled. “I was a brazen New York JAP, and he was a totally oblivious rube from the Midwest.
“当时我是一名顾客，他是一名可靠的装冰工人，刚离开装着芜青的卡车”，尼德霍夫回忆，“我可是一名响当当的纽约大作家，而他很明显是一个来自中西部的乡巴佬。
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2. Anything short of your belt makes you look like a rube.
任何比皮带短的东西都能是你像个土包子。
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3. A cross between that and maybe a little-known film we saw on rube Goldberg and his ways.
混合那个和一些我们在哥德堡和在路上时看到的一些小众电影的特色。
- rube (n.) 1896, reub, from shortened form of masc. proper name Reuben (q.v.), which is attested from 1804 as a conventional type of name for a country man.
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