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rough-hew

/ruhf-hyoo/US // ˈrʌfˈhyu //

粗略估计,粗略的说,粗略地讲,粗略地说是

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    rough-hewed, rough-hewed or rough-hewn, rough-hew·ing.

    • : to hew roughly or without smoothing or finishing.
    • : to shape roughly; give crude form to.

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Examples

  • Terrorism is bad news anywhere, but especially rough on Odessa, where the city motto seems to be “make love, not war.”

  • Gurley was gunned down on Nov. 20, when a pair of cops was patrolling the rough housing project.

  • Originally conceived by author Clarence E. Mulford in 1904, Hopalong was crude, rough-talking, and dangerous.

  • CEO Michael Lynton showed a rough cut of the movie to U.S. officials before moving ahead.

  • Hitchcock loved to tell stories, elaborate, complicated rough drafts for movies he would never make.

  • The camp grew still, except for the rough and ready cook pottering about the fire, boiling buffalo-meat and mixing biscuit-dough.

  • It was only a hut of rough boards, carelessly knocked together for a shepherd's temporary home.

  • He reached up for her big, rough straw hat that hung on a peg outside the door, and put it on her head.

  • England proclaimed a rough indignation at the demand for Gibraltar, which Austria had made in behalf of Spain.

  • The advance had to be carefully made, for the country was rough, wooded, and covered with a dense undergrowth of bushes.