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词汇 rough-hewn
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Definition of rough-hewn in English:

rough-hewn

adjective
  • 1Denoting wood or stone that has been cut with a tool such as an axe, so that its surface is not smooth.

    rough-hewn logs
    Example sentencesExamples
    • An off-market day, the rough-hewn, mangrove-slatted tables, usually weighted with fish, crabs, lemongrass, chilies, cassava, and other local produce, are empty.
    • Here, placed on one corner of an antique Muslim prayer rug, is a nearly 4-foot-high welded iron tripod, topped by a small round platform complete with a rough-hewn railing.
    • Nearby, a man planes boards for rough-hewn furniture.
    • Someone knocked on the rough-hewn wooden door.
    • Enough of his signature polished concrete, paired with rough-hewn marble, emerges to create a strong sculptural presence.
    • The passage gradually narrowed and they were forced to move single file through the rough-hewn stone corridor.
    • Many diced, drank, argued and talked throughout the tavern, mostly on rough-hewn tables and benches that were placed somewhat haphazardly on the sawdust covered floor.
    • The air was chill, the rough-hewn granite walls and vaulted ceiling glittering with moisture, streaked with soot from the sputtering torches in sconces.
    • It comprised two massive rough-hewn stones forming a twelve-foot high plinth capped with an eighteen-foot bronze statue of Alfred.
    • The edge of a town wrapped around into view off in the near-distance, small rough-hewn huts scattered about on the sparsely vegetated plain.
    • Sitting at their rough-hewn wooden table, I watch through the window as their father collects cedar firewood from a jumbled pile near the box-car.
    • Anthony returned just before sunrise, collapsing against the rough-hewn doorframe of the shack, scratches and bruises littering pale skin illuminated only by the faintest of pre-dawn light.
    • In recent years, the German sculptor has received international acclaim for his rough-hewn, carved-wood figures and animals.
    • Zeigler chose rough-hewn wood for the walls so its texture would show up through the paint.
    • All that remained was rough-hewn altar made of stone.
    • I sat to read at a rough-hewn and sturdy old desk, as the aroma of meat cooking and fire filled the room.
    • His rough-hewn marble sculptures combine a deep feeling for the inherent beauty of the material with a penchant for subtle allusion.
    • Michihiro Kosuge is known throughout the region for public commissions in granite and basalt, often incorporating flowing water with the rough-hewn rock.
    • Dark, rough-hewn wood walls and soft ambient lighting make it quite a cozy spot, and the open kitchen and small bar add to the general atmosphere.
    • The atmosphere inside the cavern was a disorienting mixture of wet stone, sour egg sulfur and air fresheners placed strategically around the rough-hewn furnishings.
    Synonyms
    primitive, simple, basic, rudimentary, rough, rough and ready, make-do, makeshift, improvised, cobbled together, thrown together, homespun, unfinished, unpolished, unformed, undeveloped
    1. 1.1 Not sophisticated, polished, or elegant.
      a rough-hewn cinematic style
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The Dutch will just have to make do with rough-hewn success.
      • Soderbergh uses three non-professionals, each with remarkable screen presence and roughhewn beauty, to enact an unlikely love triangle/sociological study.
      • Yet it is exactly the rough-hewn side of politics that makes candidates worth watching.
      • Still, I found it rough-hewn, lacking in nuance, plowing right through the music without a natural flow.
      • The working class, especially the immigrant generation, was rough-hewn.
      • The saxophonist plays with a churning, agitated energy whose tone is abrasive and rough-hewn.
      • Chris uses the rough hewn descriptive quality of stencils to depict scenes from an urban upbringing in Baltimore.
      • Her rough-hewn charisma brought in a steady flow of revenue to fund the organizations she created, which were run by members of her immediate family.
      • I'm very taken with Daniel Craig's craggy, rough-hewn portrayal in the film.
      • Any rough-hewn edges that may have beset a younger Daniel Johns have clearly been filed away, softening the blow.
      • We believe in the rough-hewn wisdom of this ancient woodsman.
      • He was a heartfelt romantic who delivered his message in a rough-hewn vernacular.
      • What the brawny actor lacks in emotive range, he more than makes up for with an appealing, roughhewn charisma.
      • At first appearances the book may seem rough-hewn.
      • He accomplishes miracles on this CD, producing a sound of rough-hewn beauty.
      • Stark and tattered around the edges, it was the quintessential diamond-in-the-rough debut, but its very rough-hewn nature made it so vibrant.
      • That said, the interior of the Orpheum Lofts is not without a rough-hewn charm.
      • Like its fellow vintage guru predecessors, the record swells with analog warmth, mediating each instrument through its raw, rough hewn reel-to-reel median.
      • This explains the somewhat rough hewn, fetchingly casual nature of his analyses of the game at certain key stages.
      • Mick Jagger and Dave Stewart provide a virile, rough hewn soundtrack that gives the film an aural authority it barely deserves.
    2. 1.2 Denoting or possessing attractively strong or bony facial features.
      his angular, rough-hewn face
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Part aristocrat and part rough-hewn soldier, Jackson represented a new kind of politics and a new conception of the presidency.
      • The authorities may well have objected to Rembrandt's characterization of the heroic ancestors of the Dutch as rough-hewn conspirators pledging a sword oath to their half-blind leader.
      • Around him ranged three others, all rough-hewn street-fighter types and native Dalreedhites.
      • He is teaching the rough-hewn and poor kids of London's East End, in a school that is considered a dead end for both students and teachers.
      • These are rough-hewn musicians, concerned less with their appearance than their art, for what else explains the many odd fashion choices and un-coiffed hair.
      • Soaring plume prices coupled with a poverty-stricken, rough-hewn populace contributed to a true ‘tragedy of the commons.’
      • The working class, especially the immigrant generation, was rough-hewn.
      Synonyms
      boorish, loutish, oafish, brutish, coarse, crude, uncouth, roughcast, vulgar, unrefined, unladylike, ungentlemanly, uncultured, ill-bred, ill-mannered, unmannerly, impolite, churlish, discourteous, uncivil, ungracious, rude, brusque, blunt, curt

Derivatives

  • rough-hew

  • verbrough-hewed ˌrʌfˈhjuːˌrəfˈhju
    [with object]
    • Cut (wood or stone) roughly with a tool such as an axe.

      I rough-hewed the trunk with the adze

Definition of rough-hewn in US English:

rough-hewn

adjectiveˌrəfˈhyo͞onˌrəfˈhjun
  • 1Denoting wood or stone that has been cut with a tool such as an ax, so that its surface is not smooth.

    rough-hewn logs
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The atmosphere inside the cavern was a disorienting mixture of wet stone, sour egg sulfur and air fresheners placed strategically around the rough-hewn furnishings.
    • All that remained was rough-hewn altar made of stone.
    • Michihiro Kosuge is known throughout the region for public commissions in granite and basalt, often incorporating flowing water with the rough-hewn rock.
    • The passage gradually narrowed and they were forced to move single file through the rough-hewn stone corridor.
    • In recent years, the German sculptor has received international acclaim for his rough-hewn, carved-wood figures and animals.
    • His rough-hewn marble sculptures combine a deep feeling for the inherent beauty of the material with a penchant for subtle allusion.
    • Many diced, drank, argued and talked throughout the tavern, mostly on rough-hewn tables and benches that were placed somewhat haphazardly on the sawdust covered floor.
    • Sitting at their rough-hewn wooden table, I watch through the window as their father collects cedar firewood from a jumbled pile near the box-car.
    • Nearby, a man planes boards for rough-hewn furniture.
    • Dark, rough-hewn wood walls and soft ambient lighting make it quite a cozy spot, and the open kitchen and small bar add to the general atmosphere.
    • Enough of his signature polished concrete, paired with rough-hewn marble, emerges to create a strong sculptural presence.
    • The air was chill, the rough-hewn granite walls and vaulted ceiling glittering with moisture, streaked with soot from the sputtering torches in sconces.
    • Zeigler chose rough-hewn wood for the walls so its texture would show up through the paint.
    • The edge of a town wrapped around into view off in the near-distance, small rough-hewn huts scattered about on the sparsely vegetated plain.
    • Anthony returned just before sunrise, collapsing against the rough-hewn doorframe of the shack, scratches and bruises littering pale skin illuminated only by the faintest of pre-dawn light.
    • Here, placed on one corner of an antique Muslim prayer rug, is a nearly 4-foot-high welded iron tripod, topped by a small round platform complete with a rough-hewn railing.
    • An off-market day, the rough-hewn, mangrove-slatted tables, usually weighted with fish, crabs, lemongrass, chilies, cassava, and other local produce, are empty.
    • It comprised two massive rough-hewn stones forming a twelve-foot high plinth capped with an eighteen-foot bronze statue of Alfred.
    • Someone knocked on the rough-hewn wooden door.
    • I sat to read at a rough-hewn and sturdy old desk, as the aroma of meat cooking and fire filled the room.
    Synonyms
    primitive, simple, basic, rudimentary, rough, rough and ready, make-do, makeshift, improvised, cobbled together, thrown together, homespun, unfinished, unpolished, unformed, undeveloped
    1. 1.1 Not sophisticated, polished, or elegant.
      a rough-hewn cinematic style
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The Dutch will just have to make do with rough-hewn success.
      • He accomplishes miracles on this CD, producing a sound of rough-hewn beauty.
      • Yet it is exactly the rough-hewn side of politics that makes candidates worth watching.
      • Soderbergh uses three non-professionals, each with remarkable screen presence and roughhewn beauty, to enact an unlikely love triangle/sociological study.
      • Her rough-hewn charisma brought in a steady flow of revenue to fund the organizations she created, which were run by members of her immediate family.
      • The working class, especially the immigrant generation, was rough-hewn.
      • At first appearances the book may seem rough-hewn.
      • This explains the somewhat rough hewn, fetchingly casual nature of his analyses of the game at certain key stages.
      • Mick Jagger and Dave Stewart provide a virile, rough hewn soundtrack that gives the film an aural authority it barely deserves.
      • He was a heartfelt romantic who delivered his message in a rough-hewn vernacular.
      • That said, the interior of the Orpheum Lofts is not without a rough-hewn charm.
      • Still, I found it rough-hewn, lacking in nuance, plowing right through the music without a natural flow.
      • We believe in the rough-hewn wisdom of this ancient woodsman.
      • Like its fellow vintage guru predecessors, the record swells with analog warmth, mediating each instrument through its raw, rough hewn reel-to-reel median.
      • Any rough-hewn edges that may have beset a younger Daniel Johns have clearly been filed away, softening the blow.
      • I'm very taken with Daniel Craig's craggy, rough-hewn portrayal in the film.
      • What the brawny actor lacks in emotive range, he more than makes up for with an appealing, roughhewn charisma.
      • Stark and tattered around the edges, it was the quintessential diamond-in-the-rough debut, but its very rough-hewn nature made it so vibrant.
      • Chris uses the rough hewn descriptive quality of stencils to depict scenes from an urban upbringing in Baltimore.
      • The saxophonist plays with a churning, agitated energy whose tone is abrasive and rough-hewn.
    2. 1.2 Denoting or possessing attractively strong or bony facial features.
      his angular, rough-hewn face
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The authorities may well have objected to Rembrandt's characterization of the heroic ancestors of the Dutch as rough-hewn conspirators pledging a sword oath to their half-blind leader.
      • The working class, especially the immigrant generation, was rough-hewn.
      • Soaring plume prices coupled with a poverty-stricken, rough-hewn populace contributed to a true ‘tragedy of the commons.’
      • Part aristocrat and part rough-hewn soldier, Jackson represented a new kind of politics and a new conception of the presidency.
      • These are rough-hewn musicians, concerned less with their appearance than their art, for what else explains the many odd fashion choices and un-coiffed hair.
      • He is teaching the rough-hewn and poor kids of London's East End, in a school that is considered a dead end for both students and teachers.
      • Around him ranged three others, all rough-hewn street-fighter types and native Dalreedhites.
      Synonyms
      boorish, loutish, oafish, brutish, coarse, crude, uncouth, roughcast, vulgar, unrefined, unladylike, ungentlemanly, uncultured, ill-bred, ill-mannered, unmannerly, impolite, churlish, discourteous, uncivil, ungracious, rude, brusque, blunt, curt
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