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词汇 asperity
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Definition of asperity in English:

asperity

noun əˈspɛrɪtiəˈspɛrədi
mass noun
  • 1Harshness of tone or manner.

    (语气或态度的)粗暴;严厉

    he pointed this out with some asperity

    他略微严厉地指出了这个问题。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They could also be very funny, or at least generously sprinkled with oblique and telling asperities.
    • I sniffed at his asperity.
    • "No, I dare say not," said the professor with asperity.
    • ‘Because I said so’, Emmett replied with some asperity.
    • To which she is likely to respond with a touch of asperity: ‘That is the wrong question.’
    • When I asked if he had never wanted to go back to South Africa, he responded with some asperity.
    • "No, of course he did not," she replied with some asperity.
    • Writing in French purified his style, and his translations into English of his work retain a penitential rigour and asperity.
    • ‘Yes, there were lots of things in there,’ she says, with a hint of asperity.
    • "You seem to have spent an inordinate amount of time watching me," said Emily with uncharacteristic asperity.
    • In another post Keith spoke with some asperity about ‘dolts’ who don't think much about the world around them and know little of politics.
    • As a friend of mine observed with some asperity, "Who cares if they're fresh and locally grown if they're covered in sugary goo?"
    • That was something that would attract asperity.
    • "He's right there," said I with some asperity.
    • As a friend of mine observed with some asperity, ‘Who cares if they're fresh and locally grown if they're covered in sugary goo?’
    • "Even Lizzie could have married him," said Mr Bennet with some asperity.
    • "I did not avoid the engagement out of spite," said Emily with some asperity.
    • He also points out with asperity that Fry abandoned a play to near-certain death, allowing his friend Rik Mayall to sink with it.
    • Mahgoub replied with asperity that he had already asked the rebels to lay down their arms; it was now up to the Pope himself to petition the rebels.
    • ''I can't imagine Alex is happy with you trying to check up on me on the first full day of your marriage," he replied with some asperity.
    • "We seemed incapable of venturing out onto those expansive grounds without encountering one another," She said with some asperity.
    • "Yes you would suggest," said Emma with some asperity.
    • ‘Well, make sure it never crosses your navel,’ she retorted with asperity.
    • ‘In case you hadn't noticed, Milord, ‘he said with just a hint of asperity, ‘everyone's avoiding you.’
    • I was trying to keep my asperity to a minimum, for his sake.
    • ‘I have to say, getting on the road and pounding along running or getting in the gym and spending hours pumping iron is not his greatest interest in life,’ Head said, with asperity.
    • I can move her, if you like,’ the elderly surgeon said, a hint of asperity in his voice, ‘but this is the infirmary, after all-'
    • ‘If speaking of Demons was a crime,’ Dorain retorted with asperity, ‘we'd all burn!’
    • ‘Oh, you know what I mean,’ Lady Benthorne said with some asperity.
    • "You and Fitz would drown in your own filth before you noticed anything was out of place," William exclaimed with asperity.
    • "In case you hadn't noticed, Milord," he said with just a hint of asperity, " everyone's avoiding you.
    • His music is liberally dissonant within a strongly tonal framework, the asperity resulting from the play of contrapuntal lines rather than from wilful experiment.
    • At this point in the play, folk culture of Lenten abnegation and christening joy collides with mannered personal interaction and judgmental asperity.
    • He opposed devolution consistently, and with some asperity, precisely because of its potential to elide into independence.
    • To which she is likely to respond with a touch of asperity: "That is the wrong question".
    • ‘They are one and the same, young lady,’ the officer told her with some asperity. ‘I take it you didn't exactly plan this trip.’
    • Samples, tapes, synths, drum programmes and all-sorts have been embedded into the sound to create a dynamic asperity.
    Synonyms
    harshness, sharpness, roughness, abrasiveness, severity, acerbity, astringency, bitterness, acidity, tartness, edge, acrimony, virulence, sarcasm
    1. 1.1asperities Harsh qualities or conditions.
      严酷;艰难困苦
      the asperities of a harsh and divided society

      一个残酷而又四分五裂的社会所特有的艰难困苦。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • She is forced to deal with the asperity of her new Frontier life, and put up with a society that is formed mostly by men, who are constantly over powering her, and unyielding in their torment, her own family being no exception.
      • In particular, seamounts on the subducting plate may serve as earthquake nucleation sites or asperities.
      • Marx, reacting against the asperities of Capitalism, will establish a metanarrative promising emancipation from exploitation and alienation.
      • The fracture zones appear to extend beneath the Caribbean plate and act as asperities marked by the higher-than-average of incidence of earthquakes.
      • By frequent collision asperities were worn off, and a foundation was laid for the establishment of a nation, out of discordant materials.
      • We became acquainted with each other, and made many lasting personal friendships, which do much to soften the asperities of future newspaper battles.
      • And he looked forward to the day when ‘the asperities and peculiarities of their character ‘would be worn away and they would become ‘liberal Unitarian Christians.’
      • Thermal asperity compensation using multiple sync marks for retroactive and split segment data synchronization in a magnetic disk storage system
      • Regarding the Middle East, it is mistaking truculent asperity and tiresome repetition for Churchillian wartime eloquence.
      • In this case, the resistance to sliding is produced by harder asperities on the surfaces and by adhesion between points of solid-solid contact.
      • This form of displacement is often called ‘stick-slip’; that is, strain builds up in the rocks next to the fault but there is no slip for some time because the rocks on either side of the fault are stuck together by features such as asperities.
      • This can be explained by the existence of a microfracture dilatancy zone at the level of this sample, causing relatively large fracture asperities reflected by pore throats at 85, 25 and 7 m.
      • In the Georgian conflict, as in the more subtle variants of energy diplomacy, Russians have shown a harshly utilitarian asperity in connecting means and ends.
      • It conveys pathos, asperity or affectionate irony, rather as if one were in the presence of a relative from whom little is hid and to whom little need to be explained.
      • The asperities on the ceramic surface are initially large and abrasive.
      • If the music has an added asperity, Soviet experience was a hard teacher.
      • And he looked forward to the day when "the asperities and peculiarities of their character" would be worn away and they would become "liberal Unitarian Christians."
      • Shear stress can be occasionally intensified if a given rock volume is exposed to local geometric effects such as bending around an asperity on a fault plane.

Origin

Middle English (in the sense 'hardship, rigour'): from Old French asperite, or Latin asperitas, from asper 'rough'.

Rhymes

ambidexterity, austerity, celerity, dexterity, ferrety, posterity, prosperity, severity, sincerity, temerity, verity

Definition of asperity in US English:

asperity

nounəˈsperədēəˈspɛrədi
  • 1Harshness of tone or manner.

    (语气或态度的)粗暴;严厉

    he pointed this out with some asperity

    他略微严厉地指出了这个问题。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • To which she is likely to respond with a touch of asperity: "That is the wrong question".
    • "In case you hadn't noticed, Milord," he said with just a hint of asperity, " everyone's avoiding you.
    • "He's right there," said I with some asperity.
    • Writing in French purified his style, and his translations into English of his work retain a penitential rigour and asperity.
    • "No, I dare say not," said the professor with asperity.
    • ‘Well, make sure it never crosses your navel,’ she retorted with asperity.
    • ‘If speaking of Demons was a crime,’ Dorain retorted with asperity, ‘we'd all burn!’
    • He opposed devolution consistently, and with some asperity, precisely because of its potential to elide into independence.
    • At this point in the play, folk culture of Lenten abnegation and christening joy collides with mannered personal interaction and judgmental asperity.
    • "Yes you would suggest," said Emma with some asperity.
    • "We seemed incapable of venturing out onto those expansive grounds without encountering one another," She said with some asperity.
    • ‘Because I said so’, Emmett replied with some asperity.
    • I sniffed at his asperity.
    • He also points out with asperity that Fry abandoned a play to near-certain death, allowing his friend Rik Mayall to sink with it.
    • ‘Oh, you know what I mean,’ Lady Benthorne said with some asperity.
    • His music is liberally dissonant within a strongly tonal framework, the asperity resulting from the play of contrapuntal lines rather than from wilful experiment.
    • That was something that would attract asperity.
    • ‘In case you hadn't noticed, Milord, ‘he said with just a hint of asperity, ‘everyone's avoiding you.’
    • ‘Yes, there were lots of things in there,’ she says, with a hint of asperity.
    • To which she is likely to respond with a touch of asperity: ‘That is the wrong question.’
    • Mahgoub replied with asperity that he had already asked the rebels to lay down their arms; it was now up to the Pope himself to petition the rebels.
    • In another post Keith spoke with some asperity about ‘dolts’ who don't think much about the world around them and know little of politics.
    • I was trying to keep my asperity to a minimum, for his sake.
    • "You and Fitz would drown in your own filth before you noticed anything was out of place," William exclaimed with asperity.
    • "I did not avoid the engagement out of spite," said Emily with some asperity.
    • When I asked if he had never wanted to go back to South Africa, he responded with some asperity.
    • They could also be very funny, or at least generously sprinkled with oblique and telling asperities.
    • Samples, tapes, synths, drum programmes and all-sorts have been embedded into the sound to create a dynamic asperity.
    • ''I can't imagine Alex is happy with you trying to check up on me on the first full day of your marriage," he replied with some asperity.
    • As a friend of mine observed with some asperity, "Who cares if they're fresh and locally grown if they're covered in sugary goo?"
    • ‘I have to say, getting on the road and pounding along running or getting in the gym and spending hours pumping iron is not his greatest interest in life,’ Head said, with asperity.
    • "Even Lizzie could have married him," said Mr Bennet with some asperity.
    • I can move her, if you like,’ the elderly surgeon said, a hint of asperity in his voice, ‘but this is the infirmary, after all-'
    • "You seem to have spent an inordinate amount of time watching me," said Emily with uncharacteristic asperity.
    • ‘They are one and the same, young lady,’ the officer told her with some asperity. ‘I take it you didn't exactly plan this trip.’
    • As a friend of mine observed with some asperity, ‘Who cares if they're fresh and locally grown if they're covered in sugary goo?’
    • "No, of course he did not," she replied with some asperity.
    Synonyms
    harshness, sharpness, roughness, abrasiveness, severity, acerbity, astringency, bitterness, acidity, tartness, edge, acrimony, virulence, sarcasm
    1. 1.1asperities Harsh qualities or conditions.
      严酷;艰难困苦
      the asperities of a harsh and divided society

      一个残酷而又四分五裂的社会所特有的艰难困苦。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • We became acquainted with each other, and made many lasting personal friendships, which do much to soften the asperities of future newspaper battles.
      • This can be explained by the existence of a microfracture dilatancy zone at the level of this sample, causing relatively large fracture asperities reflected by pore throats at 85, 25 and 7 m.
      • In this case, the resistance to sliding is produced by harder asperities on the surfaces and by adhesion between points of solid-solid contact.
      • It conveys pathos, asperity or affectionate irony, rather as if one were in the presence of a relative from whom little is hid and to whom little need to be explained.
      • She is forced to deal with the asperity of her new Frontier life, and put up with a society that is formed mostly by men, who are constantly over powering her, and unyielding in their torment, her own family being no exception.
      • Marx, reacting against the asperities of Capitalism, will establish a metanarrative promising emancipation from exploitation and alienation.
      • The fracture zones appear to extend beneath the Caribbean plate and act as asperities marked by the higher-than-average of incidence of earthquakes.
      • If the music has an added asperity, Soviet experience was a hard teacher.
      • And he looked forward to the day when "the asperities and peculiarities of their character" would be worn away and they would become "liberal Unitarian Christians."
      • Thermal asperity compensation using multiple sync marks for retroactive and split segment data synchronization in a magnetic disk storage system
      • By frequent collision asperities were worn off, and a foundation was laid for the establishment of a nation, out of discordant materials.
      • This form of displacement is often called ‘stick-slip’; that is, strain builds up in the rocks next to the fault but there is no slip for some time because the rocks on either side of the fault are stuck together by features such as asperities.
      • Regarding the Middle East, it is mistaking truculent asperity and tiresome repetition for Churchillian wartime eloquence.
      • And he looked forward to the day when ‘the asperities and peculiarities of their character ‘would be worn away and they would become ‘liberal Unitarian Christians.’
      • The asperities on the ceramic surface are initially large and abrasive.
      • Shear stress can be occasionally intensified if a given rock volume is exposed to local geometric effects such as bending around an asperity on a fault plane.
      • In the Georgian conflict, as in the more subtle variants of energy diplomacy, Russians have shown a harshly utilitarian asperity in connecting means and ends.
      • In particular, seamounts on the subducting plate may serve as earthquake nucleation sites or asperities.
    2. 1.2usually asperities A rough edge on a surface.
      (表面的)粗糙,不平
      the asperities of the metal surfaces

      金属表面的粗糙。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • At least some of the pressure sensors have a pad asperity provided thereon.
      • Shear stress can be occasionally intensified if a given rock volume is exposed to local geometric effects such as bending around an asperity on a fault plane.
      • In particular, seamounts on the subducting plate may serve as earthquake nucleation sites or asperities.
      • Magnetic disk drive having read channel in which low-frequency cutoff is set relatively high to cope with thermal asperity
      • The asperities (bumps) on the ceramic surface are initially large and abrasive.
      • The fracture zones appear to extend beneath the Caribbean plate and act as asperities marked by the higher-than-average of incidence of earthquakes.
      • The debris accumulates between the asperities, and occasionally completely covers them.
      • A disc drive data recovery system for recovering data from a magnetic disc having asperities provided.
      • Disk drive and servo pattern write method for preventing read errors resulting from a thermal asperity within an erase area between a servo pad area and a gray code area

Origin

Middle English (in the sense ‘hardship, rigor’): from Old French asperite, or Latin asperitas, from asper ‘rough’.

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