Pert
[pɜːt] or [pɝt]
解释:
(a.) Open; evident; apert.
(a.) Lively; brisk; sprightly; smart.
(a.) Indecorously free, or presuming; saucy; bold; impertinent.
(v. i.) To behave with pertness.
校对:马蒂
同义词及近义词：
a. Saucy, forward, bold, impertinent, impudent, flippant.
整理:罗莎
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Flippant, saucy, impudent, forward
ANT:Modest, retiring, bashful, demure, staid
校对:特伦斯
解释:
adj. forward: saucy: impertinent: too free in speech: (obs.) clever.—n. an impudent person.—adv. Pert′ly.—n. Pert′ness.
adj. (obs.) open: evident: plain.
校对:斯坦顿
例句:
- When George was more than usually pert and conceited, the Major made jokes at him, which Mrs. Osborne thought very cruel. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- With your pert tongue you would try the patience of a Job. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- An odious, little, pert, unnatural, impudent girl. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- And serves you right, said Jane, the pert chambermaid, if you will take their money to get drunk on. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- It was that made me angry: and so pert: and so unkind: and so ungrateful. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- A pert crooked little chit, Mr Headstone! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
校对:斯坦顿