brassy是什么意思？

brassy

英[ˈbrɑ:si] 美[ˈbræsi]

• adj. 象黄铜的，厚脸皮的；
• n. 铜头高尔夫球棍；

比较级：brassier;

最高级：brassiest;

例句

• She was an iodine-dark Indian woman with brassy peroxided hair and a dead-tired disposition. 她是一个紫棠面皮、黄铜色漂发、总是一副倦怠的印第安女人。
• a woman with big brassy earrings. 戴着黄铜色大耳环的女人
• Those ladies were brassy and busty, with pudgy fingers and painted eyes. 那些女人们打扮花哨，体态丰满，手指肥肥的，眼睛都涂了眼影。
• ...Alec and his brassy blonde wife... 亚历克和他俗气的金发太太
• The brassy boys put their tongues out at us. 那些厚脸皮的男孩儿朝着我们伸舌头。
• the brassy blonde behind the bar 酒吧柜台里衣着艳俗的金发女郎
• Musicians blast their brassy jazz from street corners. 玩音乐的人在街角大声弹奏起尖锐刺耳的爵士乐。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• ADJ-GRADED
  （音乐）刺耳的，吵闹的
  Brassy music is bold, harsh, and loud.
  例句
  Musicians blast their brassy jazz from street corners. 玩音乐的人在街角大声弹奏起尖锐刺耳的爵士乐。
• ADJ-GRADED
  （女子）没有品位的，打扮花哨的，俗气的
  If you describe a woman's appearance or her behaviour as brassy, you think that she does not have good taste, and that she dresses or behaves in a way that is too loud or vulgar.
  例句
  ...Alec and his brassy blonde wife... 亚历克和他俗气的金发太太 Those ladies were brassy and busty, with pudgy fingers and painted eyes. 那些女人们打扮花哨，体态丰满，手指肥肥的，眼睛都涂了眼影。
• ADJ-GRADED
  黄铜色的
  Something that is brassy has a yellow metallic colour and sometimes looks cheap.
  例句
  a woman with big brassy earrings. 戴着黄铜色大耳环的女人

英汉词典释义

• adj.
  象黄铜的,厚脸皮的
  She was an iodine-dark Indian woman with brassy peroxided hair and a dead-tired disposition. 她是一个紫棠面皮、黄铜色漂发、总是一副倦怠的印第安女人。

英英词典释义

• Adjective
  1. resembling the sound of a brass instrument
  2. tastelessly showy;
  "a flash car""a flashy ring""garish colors""a gaudy costume""loud sport shirts""a meretricious yet stylish book""tawdry ornaments"
  3. unrestrained by convention or propriety;
  "an audacious trick to pull""a barefaced hypocrite""the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times"bold-faced lies""brazen arrogance""the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell