roughneck
英 ['rʌfnek]
美['rʌfnɛk]
- n. 粗鲁的人，粗暴的人；流氓，无赖
词态变化
复数: roughnecks;
英文词源
- roughneck (n.)
- also rough-neck, 1836, "rugged individual," from rough (adj.) + neck (n.). Original context is the Texas frontier, later adpoted to labor organization toughs. Specific sense of "oil rig worker" is recorded from 1917. Compare redneck.
双语例句
- 1. I was looking at an elegant young roughneck , a year or two over thirty.
- 我看着的不过是一个风度翩翩的年轻汉子,三十一、二岁的年纪.
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