detraction
英 [dɪ'trækʃən]
美[dɪ'trækʃən]
- n. 诽谤；减损
助记提示
1、de- "down" + tract- + -ion.
英英释意
- 1. a petty disparagement
- 2. the act of discrediting or detracting from someone's reputation (especially by slander);
- "let it be no detraction from his merits to say he is plainspoken"
英文词源
- detraction (n.)
- mid-14c., from Old French detraccion "detraction, disparagement, denigration," from Latin detractionem (nominative detractio) "a drawing off," from past participle stem of detrahere "take down, pull down, disparage," from de- "down" (see de-) + trahere "to pull" (see tract (n.1)). The fem. form detractress is attested from 1716.
实用场景例句
- Faced with such detraction, scientists characteristically retort that science, unlike witchcraft, works.
- 面对诋毁, 科学家们出于天性给予反驳,宣称科学不是巫术, 确实有效.
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- Envy has no other quality But that of detraction from virtue.
- 嫉妒除了损坏美德外,别无可取之处.
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- Envy has no other quality but that of detraction from virtue.
- 嫉妒除了毁损美德外,别无他用.
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- Detraction will not suffer it.
- 毁谤不容许它这样做.
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- Detraction pursues the great.
- 人大招物议,树大惹风吹.
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- Let it be no detraction from his merits to say he is plainspoken.
- 说他坦率的时候请别忘记他的那些优点.
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- Weak men are crushed by detraction, but the brave hold on and succeed.
- 贬抑只能压倒弱者, 勇者则能坚持到胜利.
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