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词汇迷英语词典roughneck的中文意思

roughneck

英 ['rʌfnek] 美['rʌfnɛk]

n. 粗鲁的人，粗暴的人；流氓，无赖

英英释义

1. a cruel and brutal fellow

实用场景例句

I was looking at an elegant young roughneck , a year or two over thirty.: 我看着的不过是一个风度翩翩的年轻汉子,三十一、二岁的年纪.

双语例句

1. I was looking at an elegant young roughneck , a year or two over thirty.: 我看着的不过是一个风度翩翩的年轻汉子,三十一、二岁的年纪.

英文词源

roughneck (n.): also rough-neck, 1836, "rugged individual," from rough (adj.) + neck (n.). Original context is the Texas frontier, later adpoted to labor organization toughs. Specific sense of "oil rig worker" is recorded from 1917. Compare redneck.

词态变化

复数: roughnecks;