| 单词 |
uncultured |
| 释义 |
unˈcultured, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Of soil or plants: Not cultivated or subjected to cultivation.
1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 299 By reason of so many marisshes,..it is yet rude vncultured, and lyttle knowen. 1607J. Carpenter Plaine Mans Plough 197 Brambles and tares, such as naturally spring of evill and uncultured fields. 1633Bp. Hall Hard Texts 85 Some obscure valley that lies..utterly uncultured. 1762–9Falconer Shipwr. iii. 247 A sanguine train, With midnight ravage, scour the uncultured plain. 1804C. Smith Conversations, etc. I. 150 Blushing, the uncultured Rose Hangs high her beauteous blossoms there. 1872S. A. Brooke in L. P. Jacks Life & Lett. (1917) I. xiii. 267 The uncultured breast of Blackford and the Pentlands.
2. fig. Not developed or improved by education; not characterized by culture; unrefined.
1777T. Swift Gamblers i. 56 At school half brute, the self-same passions roll, And stamp for life his low, uncultur'd soul. 1796F. Burney Camilla II. 369 Those who unite native hardness with uncultured minds and manners. 1840Carlyle Heroes ii. (1904) 67 The man [Mahomet] was an uncultured semi-barbarous Son of Nature. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 277 He was a rough soldier, uncultured as Marius and hardly less cruel. |
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