- 1沒品、粗魯無禮（不只是沒禮貌，還帶「不懂分寸／傷害了人還不自知」）
If someone is crass, they behave in a stupid and offensive way that shows they do not understand other people's feelings — or do not care. It is not only “rude.” Rude can be short or sharp. Crass is thicker than that: loud, , and tasteless, as if the person cannot see why a joke, a comment, or a money-grab might hurt. A crass remark at a funeral. Crass jokes about someone's body. Crass advertising that uses a sad story only to sell. The word is rather formal and a little old-fashioned in everyday chat; younger speakers might just say rude, gross, or out of line. In writing, and when you want to sound rather than merely angry, crass still does useful work. It judges the person's taste and their lack of care, not only the surface of the words. You can call an action crass, a comment crass, or a person crass.
組成From Middle English cras, from Old French cras, from Latin crassus, “dense, thick, fat, heavy.” The English sense moved from “thick” to “coarse,” then to “insensitive.” Doublet of grease — they come from the same Latin word, though nobody feels the link now.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
crassadj/kɹæs/
- 1
Coarse; crude; unrefined or insensitive; lacking discrimination or taste.
- You guys would rather be with someone else who’s equal to your status in life. Tiger Woods, or somebody. I comes across as crass, a Neanderthal, a babbling idiot sometimes. I like to show you that person. I like that person.
- 2
Materialistic.
- 3
Physically dense or thick.
- 4
Lacking finesse; crude and obvious.
- 8. They require that crass stupidities shall not be played upon the reader as “the craft of the woodsman, the delicate art of the forest,” by either the author or the people in the tale.
- One may very easily fall into mistakes and errors when one is searching into the hidden causes of things, in the absence of real experiments, and this is easily apparent from the crass error of Cardan; who deems himself to have discovered the distances of the centres of the cosmos and of the earth through a variation of the magnetick iron of 9 degrees.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。