1540s, from Middle French crasse (16c.), from Latin crassus "solid, thick, fat; dense." The literal sense always has been rare in English; meaning "grossly stupid" is recorded from 1650s, from French. Middle English had cras (adj.) "slow, sluggish, tardy" (mid-15c.), also crassitude "thickness." Related: Crassly; crassness.
雙語例句
1. The government has behaved with crass insensitivity.
該政府行事愚蠢而且麻木不仁。
來自柯林斯例句
2. the crass questions all disabled people get asked
所有殘疾人都會碰到的愚蠢而缺乏同情心的提問
來自《權威詞典》
3. Crass materialism causes people to forget spiritual values.
極端唯物主義使人忘掉精神價值.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
4. The family has been described variously as crass, bigoted, racist and plain boring.
人們對這家人有各種不同的評價:愚蠢、頑固、有種族偏見和無聊透頂,不一而足。
來自柯林斯例句
5. I didn't want any part of this silly reception. It was all so crass.