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小词详解 | outrageous
outrageous 英 [aʊtˈreɪdʒəs] 美 [aʊtˈreɪdʒəs]
CEOs had an uneasy relationship with President Trump, many distancing themselves from his most outrageous pronouncements and tut-tutting about protectionism, even as they enjoyed his more conventional policies.
特朗普在任时,企业老板们和这位总统的关系尴尬,他们很享受他那些更偏保守的政策,但同时许多人会跟他的出格言论保持距离,对他的保护主义做派发出啧啧不满声。
——《经济学人》But eventually I had to admit to myself that the comparison to a police state isn't quite as outrageous as it once seemed.
但最终我不得不内心承认,与警察国家的比较并不像以前看起来那么离谱。
——《纽约时报》
[形容词] 惊人地糟糕或过度的
大放厥词
make outrageous statements怪里怪气的服装
outrageous clothes那个能说会道的人有时候尽说些耸人听闻的事。
The man with a facile tongue says the most outrageous things sometimes.
对真相无耻的歪曲
an outrageous distortion of truth我必须为自己极端无礼的行为道歉。
I must apologise for my outrageous behaviour.
The young sparks, it is true, were as full of extravagancies as overgrown children: the words of their tumultuary discussions were difficultly understood and not often nice: their testiness and outrageous mots were such that his intellects resiled from: nor were they scrupulously sensible of the proprieties though their fund of strong animal spirits spoke in their behalf.
彼等荡儿实似狂妄自大之顽童,喜议论喧嚣,用语费解,且口出不逊。每闻其暴躁与寡廉鲜耻之话语,顿感愤慨。虽能以血气方刚勉强为之开脱,但如此无礼实难以忍受。
atrocious: horrifyingly wicked heinous: (of a person or wrongful act, especially a crime) utterly odious or wicked monstrous: inhumanly or outrageously evil or wrong