Downright
['daʊnraɪt]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) characterized by plain blunt honesty; 'a downright answer'; 'a downright kind of person' .
(adv.) thoroughgoing; 'he is outright dishonest'.
錄入:佩内洛普--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(adv.) Straight down; perpendicularly.
(adv.) In plain terms; without ceremony.
(adv.) Without delay; at once; completely.
(a.) Plain; direct; unceremonious; blunt; positive; as, he spoke in his downright way.
(a.) Open; artless; undisguised; absolute; unmixed; as, downright atheism.
手打:南希
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Plain, simple, explicit, clear, undisguised, positive, absolute.[2]. Honest, sincere, artless, ingenuous, frank, open, above-board.
編輯:凯利
同義詞及反義詞：
[See_PROFITABLE]
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例句/造句/用法:
- I think so, Mas'r, said Tom; the poor crittur's sick and feeble; 't would be downright cruel, and it's what I never will do, nor begin to. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- I am brimful of downright questions; and I expect you to be brimful of downright answers. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Deep, downright, faithful earnestness. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The girl's state was, to my thinking, downright alarming--and my mistress ought to be informed of it. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- But woe betide the one who has committed an act of bad faith, treachery, dishonesty, or ingratitude; THEN Edison can show what it is for a strong man to get downright mad. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- There's weakness--there's downright ruin in all this. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- But there's the teabell,--do let's go,--and don't say, now, I haven't had one downright serious talk, for once in my life. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- There is nothing the lower orders like better than a little downright good-humoured rating. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Must I listen coolly to downright nonsense--to dangerous nonsense? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Must I at length love her downright, Cary? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- For a space he will be vain, probably a downright puppy, eager for pleasure and desirous of admiration, athirst, too, for knowledge. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Terror seemed to have struck him with downright idiocy--he waited at my heels, he followed me about when I moved like a dog. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Miss Halcombe cut the knot of the little embarrassment forthwith, in her resolute, downright way. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I wouldn't give a fig for all your politics, generally, but I think this is something downright cruel and unchristian. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Upon my honour I believe he is downright in love with you. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Don't long for poison--don't turn out a downright Eve on my hands! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Their victims attempt to resist; they are driven mad by the stings of the drones, and so become downright oligarchs in self-defence. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- And worshipping you downright. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I have seen the necessity of doing good; I have learned the downright folly of being selfish. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Oh, it's worse than foolish; it's downright sneaking, you know,' replied Lowten, nibbing the pen with a contemptuous face. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- His jealousy was downright selfishness; for he would be jealous of my pianoforte, if that instrument amused me. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- It is downright labour to him where ladies are concerned. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- But, Mr. Knightley, are you perfectly sure that she has absolutely and downright _accepted_ him. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- He was hardly fool enough to drive me to downright desperation. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Their strength lay in the fact that they were unencumbered and downright. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I am a downright man, and I repeat it. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- At first it was downright dulness to Emma. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
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