scorn

英 [skɔːn] 美[skɔrn]
  • n. 轻蔑;嘲笑;藐视的对象
  • vt. 轻蔑;藐视;不屑做
  • vi. 表示轻蔑;表示鄙视

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词态变化


第三人称单数: scorns;过去式: scorned;过去分词: scorned;现在分词: scorning;

助记提示


蛇不喜欢吃玉米,所以非常鄙视玉米。

中文词源


scorn 嘲笑,鄙视

改写自古法语 escarn,嘲笑,鄙视,来自 Proto-Germanic*skarnjan,嘲笑,嘲讽,可能来自 PIE*sker, 砍,切,词源同 scar,shear.其词义演变可能是伤害,伤口上撒盐,嘲笑,嘲讽。

英英释意


1. lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike;
"he was held in contempt"
"the despite in which outsiders were held is legendary"
2. open disrespect for a person or thing

英文词源


scorn
scorn: [12] Scorn reached English via Old French, but it is ultimately of Germanic origin. Its immediate source was Old French escharnir, a descendant of Vulgar Latin *escarnīre. This had been borrowed from a prehistoric Germanic *skarnjan ‘mock, deride, make fun of’. A product of the same base was Middle High German scherz ‘joke, jest’, which was borrowed into Italian as scherzo and subsequently made its way into English as the musical term scherzo ‘lively passage’ [19].
=> scherzo
scorn (n.)
c. 1200, a shortening of Old French escarn "mockery, derision, contempt," a common Romanic word (Spanish escarnio, Italian scherno) of Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *skarnjan "mock, deride" (cognates: Old High German skern "mockery, jest, sport," Middle High German scherzen "to jump with joy").

Probably influenced by Old French escorne "affront, disgrace," which is a back-formation from escorner, literally "to break off (someone's) horns," from Vulgar Latin *excornare (source of Italian scornare "treat with contempt"), from Latin ex- "without" (see ex-) + cornu "horn" (see horn (n.)).
scorn (v.)
c. 1200, from Anglo-French, Old North French escarnir (Old French escharnir), from the source of scorn (n.). Cognate with Old High German skernon, Middle Dutch schernen. Related: Scorned; scorning. Forms in Romanic languages influenced by confusion with Old French escorner "deprive of horns," hence "deprive of honor or ornament, disgrace."

同义词辨析


despise, scorn, look down upon

这些动词或短语动词均表示"轻视,蔑视"之意。

despise: 指由于卑鄙、软弱,渺小或无价值等而被轻视。

scorn: 语气较强,指极端的蔑视,常伴有愤怒或恼怒的情感。

look down upon: 指自视地位优越而蔑视他人或事。

词组搭配


pour scorn on

speak with contempt or mockery of

鄙视;讥讽

think scorn of

(Brit. archaic)view with contempt

(英,古)鄙视

实用场景例句


Her fellow teachers greeted her proposal with scorn .
别的老师对她的提议不屑一顾。

牛津词典

They had nothing but scorn for his political views.
他们对他的政治观点只有鄙夷。

牛津词典

She scorned their views as old-fashioned.
她对他们的观点嗤之以鼻,认为陈腐过时。

牛津词典

to scorn an invitation
轻蔑地回绝邀请

牛津词典

She would have scorned to stoop to such tactics.
她就不会下作到使用那样的伎俩。

牛津词典

Researchers greeted the proposal with scorn...
研究员们对这个建议嗤之以鼻。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Franklin shared the family's scorn for his wife's new friends...
富兰克林和家里人一样,也对他夫人的新朋友们不屑一顾。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Several leading officers have quite openly scorned the peace talks...
几位高官相当公开地对和平谈判表示出不屑。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

People scorn me as a single parent.
人们因为我一个人带着孩子就看不起我。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...people who scorned traditional methods.
摈弃传统做法的人

柯林斯高阶英语词典

It is fashionable these days to pour scorn on those in public life...
如今人们都看不起那些从事公务工作的人。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He used to heap scorn on Dr Vazquez's socialist ideas.
他以前总是嘲笑巴斯克斯博士的社会主义观点。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

They have become what they profess to scorn.
他们成了自己曾声称看不起的那种人.

《简明英汉词典》

He looked at me with scorn.
他轻蔑地看了看我.

《简明英汉词典》

Franklin shared the family's scorn for his wife's new friends.
富兰克林和他的家人一样蔑视他妻子的新朋友.

《简明英汉词典》

To raise and turn under ( the upper lip ), as in snarling or showing scorn.
撇嘴,翘嘴翘起或撇起 ( 上嘴唇 ), 如在咆哮或表示轻蔑时.

期刊摘选

But then China came to scorn trade and commerce, and per capita income stagnated for 600 years.
但是中国转向了轻视贸易商业, 在之后的600年内平均个人收入停滞不前.

期刊摘选

All who pass by have plundered him; he has become the scorn of his neighbors.
凡过路的人,都抢夺他. 他成为邻邦的羞辱.

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He is a target for scorn.
他是嘲笑的目标.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

Privately, many Chinese scorn on the Kim dynasty.
许多中国人私下十分鄙视金王朝.

期刊摘选

The scorn of those who cried out for His death.
来自众人咒诅他死亡的叫骂.

期刊摘选

But I have refined everything away by this time — anger, indignation, scorn itself. Nothing left but disgust.
到这时,我一切不平都没有了——发火, 愤慨, 嘲笑本身. 什么都没了,只有厌恶.

《简明英汉词典》

We hold Peter in high scorn.
我们瞧不起彼得.

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They laughed us to scorn , and despised us.
他们讥笑我们, 鄙视我们.

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What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water?
7谁像约伯 、 喝讥诮如同喝水 呢 .

期刊摘选

Not to scorn present Ways, or Wits, or Fashions , or Men , or War, & c .
不嘲笑当今的风气 、 俏皮话 、时装、人物 、 战争等等.

期刊摘选

You've no right to scorn a poor girl.
你没有任何理由看不起一个贫穷的姑娘.

《现代英汉综合大词典》