Abruptness
[ə'brʌptnɪs]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an abrupt discourteous manner.
(noun.) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning.
(noun.) the property possessed by a slope that is very steep.
錄入:莫拉--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The state of being abrupt or broken; craggedness; ruggedness; steepness.
(n.) Suddenness; unceremonious haste or vehemence; as, abruptness of style or manner.
贝丝編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Your sister, said he, with abruptness, a moment afterwardsis out of danger. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- Mr. Jarndyce then withdrawing into the temporary growlery, Miss Jellyby opened a conversation with her usual abruptness. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The hill, crowned with wood, which they had descended, receiving increased abruptness from the distance, was a beautiful object. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- He almost started at my sudden and strange abruptness: he looked at me astonished. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- I--I do a little in that way,' replied Mr. Snodgrass, rather taken aback by the abruptness of the question. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- As the reply passed my lips--a little bitterly, perhaps--she took my arm with the abruptness which characterised all her actions. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Mr. Chillip was so alarmed by her abruptness--as he told my mother afterwards--that it was a mercy he didn't lose his presence of mind. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- She did not get up and leave the room, as she had done in former days, when his abruptness or his temper had annoyed her. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- I often tell you abruptness is your fault; remember, too, that to you she is a stranger, and does not know your ways. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Selden exclaimed, startled out of his composure by the abruptness of the statement. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Here is my card, sir,' replied Mr. Pickwick, much amused by the abruptness of the question, and the singular manner of the stranger. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Pray, says Sir Leicester to Mercury, what do you mean by announcing with this abruptness a young man of the name of Guppy? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- After a long pause, he suddenly, and with abruptness, said, Who makes your shoes? 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
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