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 brogue [brәug]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 土腔, 拷花皮鞋

  1. I know of you well enough," smiled the Irishman, with a soft brogue.
    我是非常了解你的,”这位爱尔兰人微笑着说道,带着一种悦耳的土腔。
  2. Anyone can spot an Irishman or a Yorkshireman by his brogue, but I can place a man within six miles.
    你可以从一个人的土音判断他是爱尔兰人还是约克郡人,但我可以将这个地理范围缩小到6英里以内。
  3. Their lazy, blurred voices fell pleasantly on his ears, but his own brisk brogue clung to his tongue.
    他们慵懒、糊的声音在他听来令人愉快,但他自己的爱尔兰士腔像跟舌头粘在一起似的。


brogue
[ noun ]
a thick and heavy shoe
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Brogue \Brogue\, n. [Ir. & Gael. brog shoe, hoof.]
1. A stout, coarse shoe; a brogan.

Note: In the Highlands of Scotland, the ancient brogue was
made of horsehide or deerskin, untanned or tenned with
the hair on, gathered round the ankle with a thong. The
name was afterward given to any shoe worn as a part of
the Highland costume.

{Clouted brogues}, patched brogues; also, brogues studded
with nails. See under {Clout}, v. t.

2. A dialectic pronunciation; esp. the Irish manner of
pronouncing English.

Or take, Hibernis, thy still ranker brogue. --Lloyd.

  1. Neither has a head for detail, and both can be remarkably verbose in a provincial brogue. Each was compared badly to a rival who regularly trounced him in the political arena - Helmut Schmidt and Margaret Thatcher, respec- tively.
  2. "And in between the silence there was conversation and laughter/And music and singing/And shivers up the back of the neck," he says with a soft, husky brogue in "On Hyndford Street."
  3. In the north, you find the most Irish Montserratians of all, the so-called black Irish, who make up 10 percent of the population and are as likely as not to speak with a hint of brogue and have a tinge of red in the hair.
  4. 'There's a certain amount of native pride,' he says, the Irish brogue thickening a little.
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