callous

英语

词源

源自拉丁语 callōsus (“皮肤硬的”)，源自callum (“硬的皮肤”) + -ōsus。

发音

• (英国，美国) 国际音标^(帮助)：/ˈkæləs/

• （英国南部）音频：

  (档案)

• 韵部：-æləs
• 同音词：callus

形容词

callous (比较级 more callous，最高级 most callous)

1. 冷淡的，无情的，铁石心肠的

   She was so callous that she could criticise a cancer patient for wearing a wig.

   她无情到会因为癌症病人戴假发而责备他。

   • 2021 9月 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, 出自 BBC‎^[1]:

     Re-watching some of the audition rounds of these shows now, you're struck by how callous the judges' comments often were, and how they presented a cruel spectacle in which the audience were set up to laugh at the "deluded" members of the public who believed they could sing.

     （请为本引文添加中文翻译）

2. 起老茧的

近义词

• heartless
• insensitive

相关词汇

• calloused
• callus

名词

callous (复数 callouses)

1. callus的另一种写法