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gauche 粗鲁的 ——狗屎
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词族 · gauche
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中文词源
gauche 笨拙的
来自PIE*weng, 弯，转，词源同winch, wind. 引申义偏离，笨拙。
英语词源
- gauche (adj.)
- "awkward, tactless," 1751 (Chesterfield), from French gauche "left" (15c., replacing senestre in that sense), originally "awkward, awry," from gauchir "turn aside, swerve," from Proto-Germanic *wankjan (cognates: Old High German wankon, Old Norse vakka "to stagger, totter"), from PIE *weng- "to bend, curve" (see wink (v.)).
权威例句
- 1. We're all a bit gauche when we're young.
- 年轻的时候我们都有点放不开。
- 2. She was a rather gauche, provincial creature.
- 她是个非常不善交际、偏狭守旧的人。
- 3. I find him terribly gauche.
- 我认为他太不圆通了.
- 4. He now seems gauche and uninteresting.
- 他显得又笨拙又古板.
- 5. Their excellent manners always made me feel gauche.
- 他们优雅的举止总是让我感到自己很笨拙.