Inhospitable
[,ɪnhɒ'spɪtəb(ə)l;ɪn'hɒspɪt-] or [,ɪnhɑ'spɪtəbl]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) unfavorable to life or growth; 'the barren inhospitable desert'; 'inhospitable mountain areas' .
(adj.) not hospitable; 'they are extremely inhospitable these days'; 'her greeting was cold and inhospitable' .
布里茨校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people.
(a.) Affording no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak; cheerless; wild.
杰拉尔德編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Unfriendly (to strangers), unkind, not hospitable.
厄玛編輯
解釋/意思:
adj. affording no kindness to strangers.—ns. Inhos′pitableness Inhospital′ity want of hospitality or courtesy to strangers.—adv. Inhos′pitably.
乔迪校對
例句/造句/用法:
- If they knocked at my heart sometimes, an inhospitable bar to admission must be inwardly drawn. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Shirley, who could not be inhospitable, now called out the neglected pair in the oak parlour. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Leaving Madame Walravens' inhospitable salon, I betook myself to her cold staircase; there was a seat on the landing--there I waited. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- And now, my poor Watson, here we are, stranded and friendless in this inhospitable town, which we cannot leave without abandoning our case. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
乔迪校對