lout
lout 英 [laʊt] 美 [laʊt]
n. 笨拙的人 vt. 愚弄 vi. 鞠躬；屈服
名词复数:louts
- A lout is a clumsy, awkward oaf. If you want to insult the person who just stepped on your toes and belched, say, "Watch where you're going, you lout!"
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- n. 笨拙的人
- vt. 愚弄
- vi. 鞠躬；屈服
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1. His aunt pursed her lips in contempt, and said: "You great clumsy, country lout.
舅妈撅起嘴唇，带着蔑视的口吻说，“你这个笨手笨脚的乡巴佬！
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2. No one wants to carry around extra pounds, lout few people know how to slum down effectively.
没有人会希望身上有多余的重量，但是很少人知道如何才能有效地瘦下来。
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3. There is the famous case of Phineas Gage, however, in which brain damage to the frontal lobes of the brain by a railfoad spike turned a sober, hard-working man into a lout.
来看著名的菲尼亚斯-盖奇的例子。 一根铁路道钉破坏了他大脑的额叶，把他由冷静、勤勉的工人变得一无是处。
- lout (n.) 1540s, "awkward fellow, boor, bumpkin," of uncertain origin. Perhaps a noun from a dialectal survival of Middle English louten (v.) "bow down" (c. 1300), from Old English lutan "bow low," from Proto-Germanic *lut- "to bow, bend, stoop" (source also of Old Norse lutr "stooping," which itself might also be the source of the modern English word).
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