unkempt: [15] Unkempt means literally ‘uncombed’. It was coined from the prefix un- ‘not’ and the past participle of the now defunct verb kemb ‘comb’. This came from a prehistoric Germanic *kambjan, a derivative of *kambaz ‘comb’ (ancestor of the English noun comb). It began to be replaced by the new verb comb in the 14th century. => comb
unkempt (adj.)
1570s, from un- (1) "not" + kempt "well-combed, neat," from variant past participle of Middle English kemben "to comb," from Old English cemban "to comb," from Proto-Germanic *kambijan, from *kamb- "comb" (see comb (n.)). Form unkembed is recorded from late 14c. The verb kemb is rare after 1400s, but its negative past participle form endures.
unkempt 英文释义
1. not neatly combed;
"wild unkempt hair"
2. not neat or cared for; slovenly;
"his unkempt appearance"
3. not properly maintained;
"an unkempt garden"
"native vistas and unkempt rambling paths"
unkempt 双语例句
1. He had long unkempt hair and a stubbly chin.
他的头发又长又乱，脸上胡子拉碴。
来自柯林斯例句
2. The old beggar was dirty and unkempt.
那个老乞丐蓬头垢面.
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3. The brick path to the door was hemmed in on either side by tall, unkempt boxwood hedges.
通往门口的砖路两旁是高大、杂乱的黄杨树篱。
来自柯林斯例句
4. His hair was unkempt and filthy.
他的头发蓬乱污秽。
来自辞典例句
5. She slopped about her room, unkempt and dishevelled, in her tawdry dressing - gown.
她不修边幅,满头蓬发,穿着俗里俗气的睡衣邋邋遢遢在屋里走来走去.
来自辞典例句
unkempt 实用场景例句
greasy, unkempt hair
油乎乎乱蓬蓬的头发
牛津词典
His hair was unkempt and filthy.
他的头发蓬乱污秽。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
...the unkempt grass.
荒芜的草坪
柯林斯高阶英语词典
His voice was hoarse and his unkempt head only added to its grewsome quality.
他的声音嘶哑,加上他那副蓬头垢面的样子,听起来很可怕.
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He did not mean to go unkempt.
他并非存心要衣冠不整.
辞典例句
'Dreamy eyes and unkempt hair, What have you done to yourself. "
‘ 朦胧的眼神,蓬乱的头发你对自己做了什么 ’
电影对白
The garden looks very unkempt.
花园显得凌乱不堪.
期刊摘选
A strange figure is revealed , outwardly unprepossessing, untidy , unkempt, he a yogi of transcendent powers.
一个奇怪的现象显示,他虽然表面上不吸引人, 不修边幅, 实际上却是一位有着超越力量的瑜伽修行者.
期刊摘选
No one knows what period this mass of unkempt grave mounds belongs to.
这片丛冢也不知是什么年代的.
期刊摘选
Visitors who caught sight of him in New Hampshire where he lived described an unkempt recluse.
曾有访客在其居住地新罕布希尔州见过他,把他描绘成一位不修边幅的隐士.
期刊摘选
Unclean, unkempt, clothed in rags and hunger and madness, he saw himself victorious, heroic and beautiful.
