英：[ku:θ]
美：[kuθ]
couth如何读
couth是什么意思
- adj.文雅的；有礼貌的
couth英英释义
adjective
sophisticated, polished
Although they disagreed with the speaker, they were couth enough to listen to him respectfully.
noun
polish, refinement
I expected kindness and gentility … but there is such a thing as too much couth.—S. J. Perelman
couth词源中文解释
中古英语 couth “已知的，众所周知的； 通常的，习惯的”，源自古英语 cuðe “已知”，过去分词 cunnan “知道”，不常见的“有能力，能够”（参见 can（v.1））。
作为过去分词，随着 could 的出现在16世纪消失了，但这个古老的词在1896年以“有教养的，精致的”的新意义重新出现，作为 uncouth（参见）的反构词。古英语单词形式构成了男性专有名词 Cuthbert 的第一个元素，它的字面意思是“著名的-明亮的”。
couth词源英文解释
Adjective and Noun back-formation from uncouth
The first known use of couth was in 1896
couth 例句
1 Though I was shy, yet could I spy The truth o' what he told me, And that his house was warm and couth, And room in it to hold me.
2 Here people admire him for his brashness and occasional lack of "couth", as one small-business owner says.
3 That's the message, only put in a far more couth way.
这就是要传达的信息，只是需要以一种更加彬彬有礼的方式表示出来。
4 It's also perfectly couth to ask applicants about their payment expectations.
5 When in doubt, it's also perfectly couth to ask applicants about their salary expectations.
6 Trump’s lack of cool and couth reminds me of the old quip, “Who’d want to be a member of a club that would have me as a member?”
7 Kate's new boyfriend is a very couth youth.
凯特的新男朋友是一个很有教养的年轻人。
8 No large sound when put in your mouth, convenient to eat, and it's sanitary and couth, high practical.
入口不会发出较大响声，食用方便、卫生、文雅，实用性强。
9 Lapp said, “Gerald G., accept our humble apologies, also our lack of couth; we will kibbutz, I mean kibitz, on the action no longer, we promise to keep it down to your dull roar.”
10 A scrap-metal tycoon pays a Washington newsman to make his girlfriend couth.
11 Among other “neglected” words it wants to revive are “couth,” which means cultured, refined and well-mannered, and “frangible,” referring to something that’s fragile.
12 I watch TV on a couth all day long. The TV remote control becomes a part of my boby.
我整天躺在沙发上看电视，遥控器变成我身体的一部分。
13 their future son-in-law's lack of couth was of some concern to this patrician couple
14 Trump’s public coarseness makes Johnson’s and Nixon’s private behavior seem comparatively couth.
15 Whether thou be set by strong or couth.
16 It viciously took him to task for being cosmopolitan and having political couth.
17 When frae her mouth I never heard couth, Nor wi’ my eyes her saw.’
18 Thou who dost stoop to kiss a sister's cheek, Which rules the alabastar death with youth; Thou who art mad and strangely meek,— Empress of passions, couth, uncouth, We kneel to thee!
19 It used to be cute, though, to hear him compensate for his lack of polish and couth by using ridiculously florid language when a one-syllable response would do.
20 Even some of Durant’s Warriors’ teammates manifested their artsiness in less-than-couth ways.
couth 同义词
1 高雅的
fine elegant sophisticated tasty modest chic classy posh tasteful dainty seraphic upscale spirituel spirituelle attic
2 有教养的
polite refined polished educated cultured civil informed patrician courtly true-bred good nice accomplished civilized genteel high-browed Nice cultivated well-educated gentlemanly instructed well-bred
3 有教养
civil informed polite educated cultured patrician courtly true-bred cultivate good nice accomplished civilized genteel high-browed savoir-vivre culture Nice polished cultivated well-educated gentlemanly instructed well-bred finish grace sophistication gentry gentilesse gentle
4 熟悉
on great old inward seen familiarity conversance conversancy know post understand acquaint up familiar frequent well-known intimate knowing conversant hipped versant tuned-in well knowingly knowledge intimacy knowingness orient familiarize ken be great on
6 优雅
grace refinement posh grazioso fine beautiful smooth elegant finished refined polished minion Corinthian airy gracious cultivated snarky silken courtly ladylike well-polished spirituel flowerlike Chesterfieldian leggiero deluxe fairily gentlehood concinnity class style finish polish elegance cultivation finesse swank urbanity elegancy refine urbanize
8 熟识
11 熟悉的
great old inward seen up familiar frequent well-known intimate knowing conversant hipped versant tuned-in
12 教养
13 文雅
pure gentle polite attic humane cultivated genteel urbane svelte gently prettily finish gentility politesse urbanity urbanize
17 温文尔雅的