brusque的意思

brusque

英式音标[brʌsk]
美式英标[brʊsk; bruːsk]

基本解释

adj. 唐突的；直率的；无礼的

n. (Brusque)人名；(法)布吕斯克

brusque 唐突的

词源不详。可能同brush, 刷子, broom, 金雀花，扫帚。形容不分皂白的，唐突的。

brusque: brusque: [17] Brusque comes ultimately from the name of an unpleasant spiky shrub, the butcher’s broom, which instead of normal branches and leaves has twigs flattened into a leaflike shape, with at their ends stiff spines. The term for this in Vulgar Latin was *bruscum, which, passing into Italian as brusco, came to be used as an adjective, meaning ‘sharp, tart’. French borrowed it as brusque ‘lively, fierce’, and passed it on to English. It seems likely that English brisk [16] is derived from it.
=> brisk
brusque (adj.): 1650s, from French brusque "lively, fierce," from Italian adjective brusco "sharp, tart, rough," perhaps from Vulgar Latin *bruscum "butcher's broom plant."

2. They received a characteristically brusque reply from him.: 他们从他那里得到的是一个粗鲁无礼的答复，他一贯都是那样的。