Brassy
['brɑːsɪ] or ['bræsi]
解释:
(adj.) tastelessly showy; 'a flash car'; 'a flashy ring'; 'garish colors'; 'a gaudy costume'; 'loud sport shirts'; 'a meretricious yet stylish book'; 'tawdry ornaments' .
(adj.) resembling the sound of a brass instrument .
艾弗里校对--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass.
(a.) Impudent; impudently bold.
校对:佩里
同义词及近义词:
a. [Colloquial.] Bold, pert, assuming, forward, CHEEKY, brazen, brazen-faced.
编辑:勒罗伊
例句:
- A man who was always proclaiming, through that brassy speaking-trumpet of a voice of his, his old ignorance and his old poverty. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- Pablo was standing close to him and he smelled the brassy, dead-wine smell that came from him like the taste of a copper coin in your mouth. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- Look Life in its iron face; stare Reality out of its brassy countenance. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
手打:珀西瓦尔