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Simple, plain, and a little rough in a way that reminds you of the countryside — used for furniture, buildings, food, or a lifestyle. It's often a positive, charming word, describing something cozy and old-fashioned rather than modern and polished — 'a rustic wooden table,' 'a rustic cottage.'
鄉村風的;質樸的
組成From Latin 'rusticus', from 'rus' (the countryside).
同家族的字
- ruralshares the same Latin root 'rus', meaning the countryside
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。
rusticadj/ˈɹʌstɪk/
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Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
- rustic country where the sheep and cattle roamed freely
- She had a rustic, woodland air.
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Unfinished or roughly finished.
- rustic manners
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Crude, rough.
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Simple; artless; unaffected.
- the manners not too polite nor too rustic
- Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.
rusticnoun/ˈɹʌstɪk/
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A rural person.
- The cause of these stampedes was generally undiscoverable; but sometimes, when the birds stayed some time down on the water, the figure of a rustic would at length appear, walking behind a hedge, along a path bounding the little meadow.
- The King looked at the motionless figure, at the little crowd of hushed expectant rustics beyond the bridge, and finally at the face of Chandos, which shone with amusement.
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derogatoryAn unsophisticated or uncultured person.
- Thus this ignorant, unsophisticated but resolute agriculturist captured me. So early in 1917, we left Calcutta for Champaran, looking just like fellow rustics.
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biologyentomologynatural-sciencesA noctuoid moth.
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biologyentomologynatural-sciencesAny of various nymphalid butterflies having brown and orange wings, especially Cupha erymanthis.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。