2007年9月5日 星期三
Slob (續:不整潔 單字大集合)
slob
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n. (名詞 noun)
1. 【口】不修邊幅且舉止粗魯的人,笨拙的人
。淫穢
Debauchery
。隨機
cf. dissolute
desultory
random
He gets in desultory [conversations] with customers who are opposed to cigarettesand the desultory black [mass] that Langella disrupts with heartfelt cries of "mumbo-jumbo."
Polish nurse whom he picked up at a café and with whom he begins a desultory [affair].
After several desultory and abusive relationships, Wanda is "saved" by Dennis (Michael Higgins), who turns out to be a petty crook.
haphazard
characterized by lack of order or planning, by irregularity, or by randomness
determined by or dependent on chance
Why did you put the volumes of the encyclopedia in haphazard [order]?
The director this time tackles a dense, emotionally complicated work that translates somewhat [haphazardly] to the screen.
He has let his action develop in a [casual], almost haphazard form.
Lewis brings us into a world of eternal now, where every moment is broken down into "can I find my daughter or can't I," and the daily human needs get [accomplished] (or fail to get accomplished) [haphazardly] and [absently]. The whole film has that same [scruffy] feel that Lewis brings to it,
After a narratively haphazard first reel, the film gains [momentum] as it traces the older Helfgott's life, brought to life by Geoffrey Rush's [blazing] portrayal of the alienated pianist.
sporadic
Intermittent is necessary but not sufficient to be sporadic.
and then overcompensates with sporadic [bursts] of affection and devotion.
It helps, too, that Mr. Green has chosen a group of new young players who don't have the [antic] need to [ingratiate] that is often found in child actors who compete for face time. Instead, each is different, and what appears to be [idle], [sporadic] chatter is character revelation.
scattershot a.
It's clearly intended to be a spoof, but it doesn't seem to really know enough about the genre it's spoofing. The satire is [scattershot] and often just plain silly.
clutter
Paris apartments are cluttered, Parisian lives are [messy], the city is shown so congested you can smell the exhaust fumes.
His emphasis is on writing: As a director, he is functional, straightforward and [un]cluttered.
discursive
Me and You proceeds with [childlike] discursiveness.
cursive
Crisply photographed by Chuy Chavez and buoyed by [winsome] beep-and-buzz keyboards on the soundtrack, Me and You proceeds with [childlike] discursiveness.
cursory
going rapidly over something, without noticing details, hasty, superficial
It began [innocently] enough-a few minutes [lingering] on the [televangelist] stations, a [cursory] look at the Bible-and soon she had [wholly] given herself over to a radical, apocalyptic New Testament church. Her daily life was [permeated] with a sense of the divine-she spent hours a day in prayer and Bible study,
Saddled [with] virtually [unplayable] characters, Marisa Tomei and Vincent D'Onofrio let their worst instincts come to life here; the former far too hysterical and cursory while the latter revels in terminal weirdness.
fitful
coming, appearing, acting, etc., in fits or by spells, recurring irregularly
fitful showers of [rain]
I worried half the night and had a fitful [sleep].
。不整潔
raunchy
raunch
Origin:
1960–65, Americanism ; back formation from raunchy
noun Informal.
1. smuttiness or vulgarity; crudeness; obscenity: porno magazines and other [purveyors] of raunch.
2. slovenliness; grubbiness.
3. an earthy, raw musical style derived from blues and gospel: a singer who can go easily from raunch to rock.
Origin:
1960–65, Americanism ; back formation from raunchy
Taking their cue from the over-amplified pounding of British blues, the primal [raunch] of American garage rock, and the psychedelic rock (as well as the audience-[baiting]) of the Doors, the Stooges were raw, immediate, and vulgar.
slob
unkempt
disheveled
But the [souffle] never [rises], for reasons that begin with the fact that the [disheveled] Jerry seems like a certifiable lunatic in immediate need of extended treatment.
slovenly
One of those slovenly farmers is probably wearing my tail as a necktie by now. You're paranoid, Foxy.
grubby
dirty, slovenly
infested with or affected by grubs or larvae
children with grubby [faces] and sad eyes.
boxer Jake LaMotta add to the atmosphere of Harry Horner's [grubby] production design
the film's sense of [grubby] detail is so [keen] that one can almost smell the smoke and [stale] beer in the pubs,
larvae
larval
It's like an agent, an agent who's come to believe his own cover story, but who's in there, hiding in a larval state just waiting for the proper moment to hatch out.
dowdy
Audrey Rouget is sensitive, pure of heart, and a bit [dowdy].
Chloë Sevigny may spend a lot of time in [dowdy] ankle-length skirts and [matronly] blouses for her role as sister-wife Nicki Grant in HBO’s Big Love,
drab
[She] is middle-aged and drably [clothed], with a certainty of will that would not be out of place in a mother superior.
Erik Skjoldbjaerg, looks for grays and browns, dark greens and a washed-out [drabness]. The midnight sun casts an [unremitting] bright light,
He is a tough, [robust], [cheeky] factory worker living (in this case) in midlands Nottingham, one of those great, [sprawling], drab industrial [cities] that [scar] the landscape of Britain today.
frumpy
Toplined by Kristin Scott Thomas as the [slightly] frumpy older sister
On the page, the two already have a history marked by a long mutual flirtation, and Maureen is described as sexier and less [frumpy] than the woman who turns up onscreen.
It was a horrible, frumpy dress.
She played a [frumpy], [overweight] Londoner in Swinging London who was surrounded by [hip] and beautiful people, though she proved smarter and more humane than any of them.
...because you'll never be anything but a common frump whose father lived over a grocery store and whose mother took in washing.
scruffy
Suddenly the lights are stripped of their garish [fuchsia] and purple gels, leaving the [scruffy] set, with its [mural] of the Titanic going under, washed in white light.
Evil, a [scruffy], motorcycle-driving drug dealer and the only character in the movie who hasn't fully succumbed to lethargy.
from the dirt-poor [milieu] to the family of [scruffy] kids, hard-drinking father and tough, good-hearted mother,
Sharing a cab home, fine-featured, elegant Joanne exits in the upscale Marina District, making it quite clear she sees no need for further contact with scruffily [bearded], amiable Micah.
grotty
The secret controllers, however, are the Baron von Westphalen ([grotty] gargoyle Wallace Shawn),
。鋸齒狀
。毛茸茸
Crag
Slob
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