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Lily's blood tingled with the grossness of the rebuff.
粗鲁的拒绝使丽莉的血液沸腾起来。
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She just lied in her throat and we all realized toe grossness of her false utterance.
她简直是在撒弥天大谎。对她说假话之无耻程度,我们都是了解的。
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Only using the word "fat" is politically incorrect. "fat" implies lots of negatives; grossness laziness sloth gluttony slovenliness lack of control a sin a character flaw and worse.
仅仅使用“脂肪”一词是不准确的,“脂肪”暗示诸多负面:肥满、怠惰、懒惰、贪食、散漫、缺乏节制、罪孽、缺陷及恶劣的品质。
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“We must remember that grossness and indecency…are matters of time and place,” wrote Mr Burton in his introduction, a year before he was knighted. “What is offensive in England is not so in Egypt.”
“要知道,所谓的粗鄙与下流,也要分具体的时间和地点,”伯顿在书的前言里如是写道,“在英国不被接受的东西在埃及却并非如此”。
词根 gross
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gross adj. 总共的;粗野的;恶劣的;显而易见的 n. 总额,总数 vt. 总共收入