abrupt

UK:  [ə'brʌpt]

US:  [əˈbrʌpt]

adj.

1.突然的;出其不意的,出乎意料的,突如其来的

2.粗鲁;粗暴

3.生硬的;没头没脑的,唐突的

4.陡急的,陡削的

1 . She walks over to her usual group but when she tries to talk to any of them, their responses are abrupt and unfriendly.
她回到原来的朋友中想和她们说话时，朋友的反应很突然也不友好。

2 . On the surface pressure fields, a strongly warm low center over the African-Asian continents weakens through the abrupt change.
地面气压由突变前亚非大陆强热低压中心转变为突变后的弱低压中心。

3 . More important, it would run out of raw material with which to print its instructions, grinding everything in the cell to an abrupt halt.
更重要的是，它会因为制造自己的组织而花光原材料，在粉碎细胞内的所有东西后一切就停止了。

4 . There was a stone there. The Bishop sat down. The exordium was abrupt.
他旁边有块石头。主教便在那上面坐下。他们突然开始对话。

5 . For a man who agonised over choices, it was the most abrupt decision of the 72-year-old's political career (he did not even tell his wife).
对于一个为众多选择而烦恼的人来说，这是其72年政治生涯里最唐突的决定了（他甚至没有告诉他的夫人）。