gruff
adjective /ɡrʌf/
/ɡrʌf/
- (of a voice
) deep and rough, and often sounding unfriendly声音 低沉沙哑的;生硬的 - (of a person’s behaviour
) impatient and unfriendly人的行为 冷淡的;态度生硬的 - Beneath his gruff exterior, he's really very kind-hearted.
他外表冷漠,心地却十分善良。
- Beneath his gruff exterior, he's really very kind-hearted.
词源late 15th cent. (in the sense ‘coarse-grained’): from Flemish and Dutch grof ‘coarse, rude’, of West Germanic origin.