Ungrateful
[ʌn'greɪtfʊl;-f(ə)l] or [ʌn'ɡretfl]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) not feeling or showing gratitude; 'ungrateful heirs'; 'How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child!'- Shakespeare .
(adj.) disagreeable; 'I will not perform the ungrateful task of comparing cases of failure'- Abraham Lincoln .
艾比校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Not grateful; not thankful for favors; making no returns, or making ill return for kindness, attention, etc.; ingrateful.
(a.) Unpleasing; unacceptable; disagreeable; as, harsh sounds are ungrateful to the ear.
校對:朗达
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Unthankful, without gratitude.[2]. Unpleasing, offensive, disagreeable, ungracious.
手打:西摩
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Thankless, unthankful,[See UNGAINLY]
校對:托妮
解釋/意思:
adj. not feeling or manifesting gratitude: disagreeable irksome: not repaying one's labour thankless.—n. Ungrate′ an ungrateful person.—adj. ungrateful.—adv. Ungrate′fully.—n. Ungrate′fulness.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Heaven defend me from being ungrateful! 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- As if you had anything to make you unhappy, instead of everything to make you happy, you ungrateful heart! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- A man that is ungrateful to his benefactor, in a manner affirms, that he never received any favours from him. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Very well, you ungrateful, naughty, hard-hearted boy! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Isn't this ungrateful of you, now? 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The kindness, the unceasing kindness of Mrs. Jennings, I had repaid with ungrateful contempt. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- Is it likely that I would wilfully add to my other self-reproaches, that of being ungrateful or treacherous to you. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- That ungrateful Melnos! 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- I am sure I am not ungrateful. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Mr Wrayburn, I have had a bitter trial to-night, and I hope you will not think me ungrateful, or mysterious, or changeable. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The unthinking, he said, the ungrateful, to scorn him who, amidst blood and flames, would have saved her life at the risk of his own! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Is he ungrateful to no one else? 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I am not ungrateful, sir. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- It was not that--I was not ungrateful, she insisted. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- It was so wicked, so untrue and ungrateful, how could I say it! 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Don't think it unreasonable or ungrateful in me,' said Little Dorrit, with returning and increasing agitation. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Selfish and ungrateful! 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- How can I be ungrateful enough to have any concealment from you? 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- He might have softened his father; but all, perhaps all, would think her selfish and ungrateful. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Seem--seem--so very ungrateful. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- I was very ungrateful, Amelia said. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Self-willed, obstinate, selfish, and ungrateful. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- You are ungrateful. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- He is not ungrateful for winning her, whispered Eustacia, and in that respect he is a good man. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- You are proud, and therefore you are ungrateful too. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Well, and what if he did, you little ungrateful wretch? 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Go down on your knees and pray to God to cleanse your wicked ungrateful heart, Amelia, and may He forgive you as I do. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Just now, there are no sounds to come from the mill; the hands have been ungrateful enough to turn out, as perhaps you have heard. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- These military gentlemen are ungrateful to an invention which shoved and butted them into victory almost in spite of themselves. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Be it so, kind maiden, said Ivanhoe; I were most ungrateful to dispute thy commands. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
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