graceless
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈɡreɪs.ləs]
- 美式音标 [ˈɡreɪs.ləs]
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基本解释
- adj.不优雅的;不优美的;粗鲁的
英汉例句
- It would be graceless to write off in advance foreign investment in some of the most miserable places on earth.
对于这些地球上最困苦的国家,对外资紧闭大门也许并不是好事。 本段大体谈到外资的益处。 - Mr. Cassel has long been a formidable force in French films, and his presence here is a strong one, but, under the spell of the movie's director, it's also a heavy and graceless one.
卡索一直以来都是法国电影中一股强劲的力量,他在此片中的表演同样强劲,但是在导演的安排下,他的角色同时是沉重且粗俗的。 - Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is handsomer than the affectation of love.
我们迎合低俗粗糙的社会风气,但是真理比真爱来的更不容易。 - The movie is unconvincing and graceless, and weirdly anachronistic and overexplicit about gender issues.
NEWYORKER: Stage Beauty - Jack Nicholson plays the eponymous Schmidt, who leaves a long career in insurance and slumps into graceless retirement.
NEWYORKER: About Schmidt - Mr Brown should have apologised, simply and immediately, for his underling's behaviour (Mr McBride's own apology was graceless).
ECONOMIST: Bagehot
双语例句
权威例句
英英字典
- (NO BEAUTY) without beauty
- (NOT POLITE) without politeness
- Something that is graceless is unattractive and not at all interesting or charming.
- A graceless movement is clumsy and uncontrolled.
- gracelessly
- If you describe someone as graceless, you mean that their behaviour is impolite.
- gracelessly