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avuncular

/uh-vuhng-kyuh-ler/US // əˈvʌŋ kyə lər //UK // (əˈvʌŋkjʊlə) //

前卫的,前卫,前卫的人,前瞻性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to an uncle: He spoke of his sister's son with avuncular pride.
    • : acting like an uncle, as in being kind, patient, generous, etc., especially to younger people: the avuncular, slightly condescending boss of a toy company.

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Examples

  • Assuming an avuncular tone, the elder crow apologizes for smacking you on your noggin before going on to explain that it, too, used to work as a reaper.

  • It was more of a plea than a poem — the avuncular words of an ordinary Joe.

  • FDR gives an avuncular grin around his famous cigarette holder to Andrew Jackson.

  • “You paid good money for this,” says the Vacuum Cleaner Guy (brilliantly played by an avuncular but ruthless Robert Forster).

  • At precisely 11:00, NRA president David Keene plodded slowly to the podium, bespectacled, white haired, and avuncular.

  • From Cairo, Ashraf Khalil reports on the clash between an aggressive Amr Moussa and avuncular Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh.

  • Even more polite than Jay, Brian Leveson gives off the avuncular air of a kindly head master.

  • For those who, with Mller, suppose Hengest to be brother of Hnf, will have to admit the avuncular difficulty in him also.

  • He merely smiled benignly upon Caput in an avuncular fashion.

  • The avuncular countenance lighted up: here were fresh woods and pastures new to that ancient shepherd.

  • Flora lingering at her avuncular pleasures, she herself went to the closet and took down a dress.

  • The time would soon come when the avuncular character would be more difficult to support than that of a rejected absentee.