Ruffian
['rʌfɪən]
解释:
(n.) A pimp; a pander; also, a paramour.
(n.) A boisterous, cruel, brutal fellow; a desperate fellow ready for murderous or cruel deeds; a cutthroat.
(a.) brutal; cruel; savagely boisterous; murderous; as, ruffian rage.
(v. i.) To play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult.
录入:洛根
同义词及近义词：
n. Villain, miscreant, caitiff, scoundrel, wretch, monster, cut-throat, murderer.
a. Savage, brutal.
艾达校对
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Villain, cutthroat, brutal_fellow, bully
克莉丝汀编辑
解释:
n. a brutal boisterous fellow: a robber: a murderer: a pander.—adj. brutal: boisterous: licentious: stormy.—v.i. to play the ruffian to rage.—n. Ruff′ianage.—adj. Ruff′ianish having the qualities or manners of a ruffian.—n. Ruff′ianism conduct of a ruffian.—adjs. Ruff′ianly like a ruffian: violent; Ruff′inous (obs.) ruffianly outrageously.
录入:玛格
例句:
- It was the work of this brutal ruffian whom he had the misfortune to employ. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- Little as I know of the law, I am certain that it can protect a woman from such treatment as that ruffian has inflicted on you to-day. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Nothing could be more becoming to your complexion than that ruffian's rouge. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Tall and muscular as I was in form, I must have looked like, what indeed I was, the merest ruffian that ever trod the earth. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Take down the shutters, yer idle young ruffian! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- What we pay rates and taxes for I don't know, when any ruffian can come in and break one's goods. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- None of your mistering,' replied the ruffian; 'you always mean mischief when you come that. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- It was a straight left against a slogging ruffian. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- And cannot the ruffian, the brutal, the debased, by slave law, own just as many slaves as the best and purest? 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- Sikes knew too much, and his ruffian taunts had not galled Fagin the less, because the wounds were hidden. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- Then he raised his revolver and covered the young ruffian, who was advancing upon him with his dangerous riding-crop swinging in his hand. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- Her voice once drowned by the shout of ruffian defiance, and I shall be full of impulses to resist and quell. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- I pity the ruffian who crosses you, my wild man, when I take you to Paris. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- The kindly, charitable, good old governor--how could he have fallen into the clutches of such a ruffian! 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- To-morrow the ruffian had declared that I should die. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- The historian says: Ruffians, hired by Fulbert, fell upon Abelard by night, and inflicted upon him a terrible and nameless mutilation. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- How could she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- Ye have sufficient ruffians of your own, said De Bracy; not one of mine shall budge on such an errand. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- And I don't believe in any pay to make amends for bringing a lot of ruffians to trample your crops. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- The crew were a set of ruffians, specially picked for the job. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- The ruffians tore him shrieking out of her arms, and have never allowed him to see her. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- I cannot hear unmoved that ruffians have laid in wait for him, and shot him down, like some wild beast from behind a wall. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Several times last night, when the supernumeraries entered the arena to drag out the bodies, the young ruffians in the gallery shouted, Supe! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- I am seeking the last resting place of those ruffians. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
录入:朱迪思