cruder adj. 粗糙的;天然的,未加工的;粗鲁的 (crude的变形)
- We can scarcely even name the cruder ones.
我们甚至很少能够命名出天然的。 - It was just hidden previously and swamped by a more crude difficulty and, when the cruder difficulty is explained away, people focus their attention on the new difficulty.
先前它只是隐匿起来了,被更加粗糙的困难所淹没,并且在这些粗糙的问题被解决之后,人们才将他们的目光聚焦在这个新问题上。 - But the G.O.P. has responded to the crisis not by rethinking its dogma but by adopting an even cruder version of that dogma, becoming a caricature of itself.
然而,面对危机,共和党却并没有重新思考自己的教义,而代之以这种教义更加原始的版本,从而使自己成为一幅讽刺画。
Crude \Crude\ (kr[udd]d), a. [Compar. {Cruder} (-[~e]r); superl.
{Crudest}.] [L. crudus raw; akin to cruor blood (which flows
from a wound). See {Raw}, and cf. {Cruel}.]
1. In its natural state; not cooked or prepared by fire or
heat; undressed; not altered, refined, or prepared for use
by any artificial process; raw; as, crude flesh. ``Common
crude salt.'' --Boyle.
Molding to its will each successive deposit of the
crude materials. --I. Taylor.
2. Unripe; not mature or perfect; immature.
I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude.
--Milton.
3. Not reduced to order or form; unfinished; not arranged or
prepared; ill-considered; immature. ``Crude projects.''
--Macaulay.
Crude, undigested masses of suggestion, furnishing
rather raw materials for composition. --De Quincey.
The originals of Nature in their crude
Conception. --Milton.
4. Undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give
nourishment. ``Crude and inconcoct.'' --Bacon.
5. Having, or displaying, superficial and undigested
knowledge; without culture or profundity; as, a crude
reasoner.
6. (Paint.) Harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad
taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work
of art.