churlish

UK:  ['tʃɜː(r)lɪʃ]

US:  ['tʃɜrlɪʃ]

adj.

1.乡下人的

2.粗鄙的;脾气坏的

3.吝啬的

4.(土地)难耕种的

5.太粗暴

6.罕见的

7.下贱的

1 . Yet there has always been a churlish undercurrent of criticism beneath the adulation.
然而，奉承之下总是潜藏着难以应付的批评。

2 . Churlish as it may be to criticise those who set out to2 do good, many charities behave as if they were unaccountable.
也许去批评那些一心想做点好事的人是很无礼的，但是许多慈善团体表现地似乎一点责任感都没有。

3 . It would be churlish to see no progress on reforming the IPCC, but blindness to believe there had been enough.
若不是盲目相信气候委员会做的足够好了，那么在改革气候委员会方面看不到有任何进展将令人感到非常不愉快。

4 . Spier's editorial said "desperate situations call for desperate measures" and said it would be "churlish" to push aside "a mass of data" .
Spier的社论说“危急的情况需要危急的手段”，他还说拒绝“大量的数据”是“无礼的”。

5 . The truth is that when someone pays you the enormous compliment of asking you to become his life partner, it seems to me churlish to refuse.
事实是，当某人请求你成为他的生活伴侣时，这是一种巨大的恭维，对我来说，拒绝似乎有些无礼。