单词 | dishevelled |
释义 | dishevelled (bre) (name usually disheveled) (literary, disapproving) (of a person, their hair or general appearance) untidy(人、头发或外表)肮脏的,凌乱的,不整洁的◆she returned at 1 a.m. in a dishevelled state.凌晨 1 点,她衣衫不整地回来了。note 辨析 scruffy, messy or dishevelled? scruffy is much more frequent in british english than american english. messy, meaning 'untidy', is only used to describe sb's appearance in american english; in british english it can only describe a place. you can talk about a scruffy/dishevelled man/woman/child, but a messy man/woman/child is sb who makes a mess, not sb who looks untidy. a scruffy person, or sb with a messy appearance, is untidy because they have not taken care of their appearance. a dishevelled person has become untidy as a result of sth, for example being out in wind and rain. scruffy clothes are old and often dirty or with holes, etc.; messy clothes are untidy (in american english) or dirty (in british english). * scruffy 在英式英语中比在美式英语中要常用得多。messy 意为“不整洁的”,在美式英语中仅用于形容人的外表,在英式英语中仅用于形容场所。可以说 a scruffy/dishevelled man/woman/child (邋遢/衣冠不整的男人/女人/孩子),但 a messy man/woman/child 指缺少条理、乱放东西的人而非外表不整洁的人。用 scruffy 形容人或用 messy 形容外表时,指因不修边幅而显得邋遢; dishevelled 则表示外表邋遢事出有因,如遭遇了风雨等。scruffy 形容服装时指衣服又旧又脏,或者有破洞等; messy 形容服装时在美式英语中指不整洁,在英式英语中则指不干净。 ➡ see also messy → dirty , messy → untidydishevelled/dɪˈʃevld ||; dɪˈʃɛvḷd/(us 美 disheveled) adj (used about a person's appearance) very untidy (指人的外表)不整洁的 dishevelledsee ⇨ untidy 2 di·shev·elled /bre 【英】, disheveled ame 【美】 /dɪ`ʃɛvḷd; dɪˈʃevəld//adjdishevelled clothes, hair etc are very untidy 衣冠不整的,不修边幅的:◇she looked tired and dishevelled. 她看上去疲劳不堪,衣冠不整。 |
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