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rough-voiced

/ruhf-voist/US // ˈrʌfˈvɔɪst //

粗声粗气,粗声粗气的,粗声大气,粗声细气

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having a harsh or grating voice: a rough-voiced barker.

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.

  • None of her last five movies (with the exception of an Ice Age sequel she voiced) has grossed more than $50 million.

  • Koenig has not been a sterile, objective narrator; she has openly voiced her biases, concerns, and gut feelings all along.

  • 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.

  • He took what appeared to him to be quite sufficient for a book to a friend who had voiced an interest in his undertaking.