ruffian

英 [ˈrʌfiən]

美 [ˈrʌfiən]

n.  暴徒; 恶棍

复数：ruffians　

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BNC.22925 / COCA.26175

牛津词典

noun

• 暴徒；恶棍
  a violent man, especially one who commits crimes

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 流氓;恶棍;暴徒;罪犯
  Aruffianis a man who behaves violently and is involved in crime.
  1. ...gangs of ruffians who lurk about intent on troublemaking.
     潜伏在周围意图制造麻烦的匪帮

英英释义

noun

• a cruel and brutal fellow
  Synonym:bullytoughhooliganroughneckrowdyyobyoboyobbo

双语例句

• It has the function of dispelling qi and eliminating the accumulation, reducing phlegm and dispersing the ruffian.
  枳实为常用中药，具有破气消积，化痰散痞的功效。
• If that little ruffian belonged to me, I should give him a touch of the rope's end.
  那小流氓要是我的孩子，我就要用鞭子揍他一顿。
• He also admitted that you had some interest in a mill or mills that necessitated your riding about alone, or attended by a ruffian who, Captain Butler assures us, is a murderer.
  他还承认你对一家或几家厂子都很有兴趣，因此得坐着马车到处跑，而巴特勒船长告诉我们，赶车的那个恶棍还杀过人呢。
• In his novels, prose and essays, he conveys a radical ruffian spirit, which, in essence, is the disengaged cultural spirit of the irreconcilability of truth and falsehood.
  他通过小说文本及散文随笔传达出一种激进的“痞子”精神，这种“痞子”精神的实质是“真实与虚假势不两立”的自由文化精神。
• Cafferty is the garbage, drug, blockhead and ruffian in the international news press!
  卡弗蒂就是国际新闻界的“垃圾”、“毒品”、“呆子”、“暴徒”！
• We discover: The Phonetic ruffian of novel of Wang Shuo is a performance that the author emphasizing "truth" and pursuing "truth" in fact.
  我们发现：王朔小说语言的痞味儿其实正是作者崇尚真，追求真的表现。
• He's threatening me from there! Hooligan! Ruffian!
  他这是来这里威胁我！流氓！恶棍！
• He was about to call out when that ruffian dashed at him and gripped his throat.
  他正要叫喊，那歹徒猛扑过来，卡住他的脖子。
• The greatest ruffian, the most hardened violator of the laws of society, is not altogether without it.
  最大的恶棍，极其严重地违犯社会法律的人，也不会全然丧失同情心。
• A hired ruffian; a thug.
  一个被雇的恶棍；暴徒。