callousness如何读

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callousness是什么意思

  • adj.麻木的;无情的;硬结的;起老茧的

callousness英英释义

adjective

being hardened and thickened

having calluses

callous hands

feeling no emotion

feeling or showing no sympathy for others : hard-hearted

a callous indifference to suffering

verb

transitive verb

to make callous

hands calloused by hard manual labor

callousness词源英文解释

Adjective and Verb Middle English, from Latin callosus, from callum, callus callous skin

The first known use of callous was in the 14th century

callousness儿童词典英英释义

callowadjective

lacking adult experience : immature

callow youth

callowadjective

lacking adult experience : immature

callow youth

callousadjective

being hardened and thickened

having calluses

callous hands

feeling or showing no sympathy for others : unfeeling

a callous refusal to help the poor

callousness 例句

1 Not from callousness, but because we’d nominated some different problems as “ours”, and were already busy making a difference.

2 Without minimizing their capacity for callousness and self-deception, she invites us to appreciate the inventive resilience of their responses to the challenges life sends them.

3 Moments of sympathy and understanding are strafed with acts of callousness that shock even the perpetrators.

4 That kind of strife underlying the country's head office is unsettling, and was mirrored in Trump's public life; his — and Melania's — administration was one of callousness and coldness.

5 … the scenes involving the snotty, callous dean ring false right from the start …

6 In fact, I have always thought that the trait Gervais needs to watch is not callousness but soppiness; in all his TV projects since The Office, there has been a strain of romance or redemption.

7 Hiding beneath the utterly bonkers story line is a sharp and often cruel commentary on seasonal self-centeredness and callousness toward the needy.

8 Who better to model his power suit-wearing striver on than the embodiment of 1980s greed and callousness?

9 They have a certain quality which it would not be accurate to describe as callousness or indifference.

10 But Ms. Wade’s research, drawn from data she personally collected and a range of supplementary sources, does convey exceptionally well the perverse callousness of hookup culture.

11 Snarky comments made about other unlikely alliances, however, often bespeak a callousness or a lack of esprit.

12 The very callousness of those Get Over It types means that they are likely to be persistent.

13 The Colombian officer, a cultured, religious man Jesuit-schooled like Klay, reflects with a certain resigned callousness on his profession: “the work of violence, which is what makes history happen.”

14 A lot of what we take to be the toughness of the past was really just callousness.

我们在过去的许多坚毅表现,实际上只是冷酷。

15 “For my family, it’s rather insulting,” he wrote, adding that the “sculpture is an especially egregious example of the woke machine’s callousness and vanity” that to him seemed like an especially expensive but empty gesture.

16 This isn't cynicism or callousness speaking, but the frustrated misery we all share with every additional act of gun violence.

17 Maybe this is deliberate, meant to scold us for our callousness toward the mentally ill.

18 It’s awful to see, and at times infuriating, as when Jay Leno, who had welcomed her onto “The Tonight Show,” makes jokes about her drug use with repulsive callousness.

19 a callous refusal to help the poor

20 Patient, cold and callous, our hands wrapped in socks, we waited to snowball the cats.

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