Harshness
['hɑrʃnɪs]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions.
(noun.) the quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses.
克洛伊校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The quality or state of being harsh.
黛博拉校對
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Roughness.[2]. Austerity, rigor, severity, sternness, crabbedness, moroseness, churlishness, ill-temper, bad blood.[3]. Rudeness, incivility, bluntness, bluffness.
錄入:温思罗普
例句/造句/用法:
- This harshness to one like me, who had been hitherto so spoiled and indulged, affected me with the deepest melancholy. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Old lady,' said her husband, but without harshness, 'if you cut in when requested not, I'll get a pillow and carry you out of the room upon it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Miss Mary--a well-looked, well-meant, and, on the whole, well-dispositioned girl--wore her complacency with some state, though without harshness. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The homely harshness of Miss Keeldar's salutation won her the ear of the whole throng in a second. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I had heard this woman termed plain, and I expected bony harshness and grimness--something large, angular, sallow. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- He declared, notwithstanding her harshness, he even called it coldness, that he loved her. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- He tried by indulgence to the grandson to make up for harshness to the elder George. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He's my child, and I can't have his spirit broken by harshness. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- His father's harshness is not George's fault, sir. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- She described his disposition, such as she fancied it--quick and impatient of control or harshness, easily to be moved by love and kindness. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
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