neanderthal
柯林斯詞典
1. ADJ Neanderthal people lived in Europe between 35,000 and 70,000 years ago. (生活在3.5萬年至7萬年之前的歐洲的)尼安德特人[ADJ n]
Neanderthal man was able to kill woolly mammoths and bears. 尼安德特人能夠捕殺長毛猛獁象和熊。
2. N-COUNT You can refer to people from the Neanderthal period as Neanderthals. 尼安德特人[usu pl]
3. ADJ If you describe people's, especially men's, ideas or ways of behaving as Neanderthal, you disapprove of them because they are very old-fashioned and uncivilized. (尤指男性)極耑守舊的; 粗魯?shù)?span>[usu ADJ n] [表不滿]
Let us deal with the question of his notoriously Neanderthal attitude to women. 我們來看看他臭名昭著的、對女性態(tài)度粗魯?shù)膯栴}。
4. N-COUNT If you call a man a neanderthal, you disapprove of him because you think he behaves in a very uncivilized way. (指男性)粗魯?shù)娜?span>[表不滿]
...drunken neanderthals. ...醉醺醺的粗漢。
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neanderthal /ni???nd?θ??l, -t??l/ (neanderthals)
劍橋詞典
- (of people or beliefs ) very old-fashioned and not willing to change
(人或信仰)極耑守舊的,反對變革的
He criticized what he described as the "neanderthal tendencies " of the right wing of the party . 他批評了那些他稱之爲(wèi)“極耑保守派”的黨內(nèi)右翼分子。
disapproving
(of people ) rude or offensive
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