gauche

英 [ɡəʊʃ]

美 [ɡoʊʃ]

adj.  笨拙的; 不善社交的; 不老练的

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BNC.22412 / COCA.26552

牛津词典

adj.

• 笨拙的；不善社交的；不老练的
  awkward when dealing with people and often saying or doing the wrong thing
  1. a gauche schoolgirl/manner
     不善社交的女生；笨拙的举止

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 不善交际的；拘谨的
  If you describe someone asgauche, you mean that they are awkward and uncomfortable in the company of other people.
  1. We're all a bit gauche when we're young...
     年轻的时候我们都有点放不开。
  2. She was a rather gauche, provincial creature.
     她是个非常不善交际、偏狭守旧的人。

英英释义

adj

• lacking social polish
  1. too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate
  2. their excellent manners always made me feel gauche
  Synonym:gracelessunpolished

双语例句

• We can not afford to be gauche.
  我们不能举止粗鲁。
• I find him terribly gauche.
  我认为他太不圆通了。
• When receiving a business card, it is gauche to write on the back side.
  当你接到一张名片时，在名片的背面写字是一种无礼的表现。
• Of course he was gauche when I graduated, took too many photographs and didn't understand the Latin that was spoken before the ceremonial meal.
  当然在我毕业的时候他已经笨拙起来了，拍了很多照片，不知道在礼节餐前要讲拉丁语的。
• SAMs with different chain lengths have different annealing properties, because of different initial states at room temperature, such as gauche concentrations and degrees of order.
  不同碳链长度的自组装单分子膜的温度特性不同，其主要原因是这些自组装单分子膜在室温时对应的初始状态不同，如有序度、膜内缺陷含量等不同。
• It was demonstrated that gauche conformation is the dominant conformation for the monolayers formed on gold surface.
  研究结果表明，在金电极表面所形成的半胱胺单分子膜中，半胱胺分子主要的构型为扭转构型。
• Her manners were open, easy and decided* without any approach to coarseness, or any want of good humour too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate; their excellent manners always may be feel gauche.
  当谈话变得亲密时粗鲁的不肯离开；他那良好的举止总是可以让人觉得粗俗。
• Untilting of alkyl chains, aggregation of gauche defects and continuous rotation phase separately play leading function during different thermal annealing range.
  膜内烷基链的非倾斜化、邻位交叉缺陷的积聚和烷基链连续旋转相分别在不同的热处理温度范围起着主要的作用。
• She was a rather gauche, provincial creature.
  她是个非常不善交际、偏狭守旧的人。
• He now seems gauche and uninteresting.
  他显得又笨拙又古板。