Ruffian
['rʌfɪən]
解釋/意思:
(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.
錄入:洛根
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Villain, miscreant, caitiff, scoundrel, wretch, monster, cut-throat, murderer.
a. Savage, brutal.
艾达校對
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Villain, cutthroat, brutal_fellow, bully
克莉丝汀編輯
解釋/意思:
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.
錄入:玛格
例句/造句/用法:
- It was the work of this brutal ruffian whom he had the misfortune to employ. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- 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. 威爾基·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. 簡·愛.
- 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. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Take down the shutters, yer idle young ruffian! 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- What we pay rates and taxes for I don't know, when any ruffian can come in and break one's goods. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- None of your mistering,' replied the ruffian; 'you always mean mischief when you come that. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- It was a straight left against a slogging ruffian. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- And cannot the ruffian, the brutal, the debased, by slave law, own just as many slaves as the best and purest? 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Sikes knew too much, and his ruffian taunts had not galled Fagin the less, because the wounds were hidden. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Then he raised his revolver and covered the young ruffian, who was advancing upon him with his dangerous riding-crop swinging in his hand. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- 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. 雪麗.
- I pity the ruffian who crosses you, my wild man, when I take you to Paris. 愛德格·賴斯·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! 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- To-morrow the ruffian had declared that I should die. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The historian says: Ruffians, hired by Fulbert, fell upon Abelard by night, and inflicted upon him a terrible and nameless mutilation. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- 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? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Ye have sufficient ruffians of your own, said De Bracy; not one of mine shall budge on such an errand. 沃爾特·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. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The crew were a set of ruffians, specially picked for the job. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- The ruffians tore him shrieking out of her arms, and have never allowed him to see her. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- 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. 雪麗.
- Several times last night, when the supernumeraries entered the arena to drag out the bodies, the young ruffians in the gallery shouted, Supe! 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I am seeking the last resting place of those ruffians. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
錄入:朱迪思