brazen

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a. 黄铜制的, 厚颜无耻的 vt. 厚脸皮地对待

发音

UK /ˈbɹeɪ̯zən/
US /ˈbɹeɪ̯zən/
AU /ˈbɹæ̝ɪ̯zən/
AU /ˈbɹæ̝ɪzn̩/

词形变化

brazened brazening brazens 三单 brazens brazening 现在分词 brazened 过去式 brazened 过去分词 brazenest more brazen 比较级 brazener 比较级 most brazen 最高级 brazenest 最高级

别名

brasen

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To turn a brass color.

    不及物
  2. 2.

    Generally followed by out or through: to carry through in a brazen manner; to act boldly despite embarrassment, risk, etc.

    及物
adj.
  1. 1.

    Made of brass.

    古体

    Brazen or rather copper swords seem to have been next introduced; these in process of time, workmen learned to harden by the addition of some other metal or mineral, which rendered them almost equal in temper to iron.

  2. 2.

    Brass-like in appearance or character; bright, ruddy, hard.

    比喻
  3. 3.

    Sounding harsh and loud, like brass cymbals or brass instruments.

    And now the Trumpets terribly from far, / With rattling Clangor, rouze the sleepy War. / The Souldiers Shouts succeed the Brazen Sounds, / And Heav'n, from Pole to Pole, the Noise rebounds.

  4. 4.

    Extremely strong; impenetrable; resolute.

    古体
  5. 5.

    Shameless or impudent; shocking or audacious; brash.

    She was brazen enough to deny stealing the handbag even though she was caught on camera doing so.

词汇关系

动词

上位词 2

dare defy
形容词

同义词 7

insolent audacious bodacious baldfaced barefaced brassy brazen-faced

近义相关 1

unashamed

相关短语

brazen bull brazen bulls brazen out 厚着脸皮硬挺 brazen age Brazen Sea

词源

From Middle English brasen, from Old English bræsen (“brazen, of brass”); equivalent to brass + -en (compare golden, wooden, etc.). The word originally meant “of brass”; the figurative verb sense (as in brazen it out (“face impudently”)) dates from the 1550s (perhaps evoking the sense “face like brass, unmoving and not showing shame”), and the adjective sense “impudent” from the 1570s. Compare brass neck, bold as brass.

来源：wiktionary