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 scorn [skɒ:n]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 轻蔑, 藐视, 嘲笑, 被嘲弄的人

vt. 轻蔑, 不屑做




    scorn
    [ noun ]
    1. lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike

    2. <noun.feeling>
      he was held in contempt
      the despite in which outsiders were held is legendary
    3. open disrespect for a person or thing

    4. <noun.communication>
    [ verb ]
    1. look down on with disdain

    2. <verb.emotion> contemn despise disdain
      He despises the people he has to work for
      The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately
    3. reject with contempt

    4. <verb.communication>
      disdain freeze off pooh-pooh reject spurn turn down
      She spurned his advances


    Scorn \Scorn\ (sk[^o]rn), n. [OE. scorn, scarn, scharn, OF.
    escarn, escharn, eschar, of German origin; cf. OHG. skern
    mockery, skern[=o]n to mock; but cf. also OF. escorner to
    mock.]
    1. Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that
    disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter
    meanness and unworthiness of an object.

    Scorn at first makes after love the more. --Shak.

    And wandered backward as in scorn,
    To wait an [ae]on to be born. --Emerson.

    2. An act or expression of extreme contempt.

    Every sullen frown and bitter scorn
    But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn.
    --Dryden.

    3. An object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision.

    Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn
    and a derision to them that are round about us.
    --Ps. xliv.
    13.

    {To think scorn}, to regard as worthy of scorn or contempt;
    to disdain. ``He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai
    alone.'' --Esther iii. 6.

    {To laugh to scorn}, to deride; to make a mock of; to
    ridicule as contemptible.

    Syn: Contempt; disdain; derision; contumely; despite; slight;
    dishonor; mockery.


    Scorn \Scorn\ (sk[^o]rn), v. i.
    To scoff; to mock; to show contumely, derision, or reproach;
    to act disdainfully.

    He said mine eyes were black and my hair black,
    And, now I am remembered, scorned at me. --Shak.


    Scorn \Scorn\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scorned} (sk[^o]rnd); p. pr.
    & vb. n. {Scoring}.] [OE. scornen, scarnen, schornen, OF.
    escarnir, escharnir. See {Scorn}, n.]
    1. To hold in extreme contempt; to reject as unworthy of
    regard; to despise; to contemn; to disdain.

    I scorn thy meat; 't would choke me. --Shak.

    This my long sufferance, and my day of grace,
    Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste.
    --Milton.

    We scorn what is in itself contemptible or
    disgraceful. --C. J. Smith.

    2. To treat with extreme contempt; to make the object of
    insult; to mock; to scoff at; to deride.

    His fellow, that lay by his bed's side,
    Gan for to laugh, and scorned him full fast.
    --Chaucer.

    To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously. --Shak.

    Syn: To contemn; despise; disdain. See {Contemn}.

    1. For the many Beijing residents who scorn the government but are uneasy about social unrest, it's a matter of enduring the propaganda and the police.
    2. Mr. Baker drew scorn from some Wall Street types for his careless comments on the dollar immediately before the market crash.
    3. Pickering said Iraq repeatedly had lied about its intentions and demonstrated its "scorn" for the international community and disdain for international law.
    4. But certainly, in an era of glass-jawed politicians, he went the distance without disabling scar or scorn, and set a modern standard for survival.
    5. Furthermore, what prompted Darman's scorn - Pinkerton's proposal for a range of self-help programs for the poor - seems to be finding support from Bush, the man who counts.
    6. Those comments drew scorn from Information Minister Latif Jassim.
    7. After a period of scorn and neglect his best music, or such of it as is nowadays performed, shows every sign of survival.
    8. Expressing scorn for the political liberalization transforming allied Soviet bloc parties and countries, Ceausescu hinted that reformist Communist leaders elsewhere had betrayed their people.
    9. Even her foes tempered scorn with praise for a formidable adversary.
    10. Daffynition Hypercriticism: scorn of plenty.
    11. In Russia, the very words 'Uruguayski Raund' generate disbelief and scorn. For the French, though, international trade policy plays the same role as vampires in Transylvanian folklore.
    12. These include physical difficulties, such as isolation and lack of useful work spaces; the scorn with which home-based work is often received; the handicap of working without paid vacations, convenient backup help for projects, and health insurance.
    13. "An eruption of demonstrations involving firebombs, stones and tear gas during the Olympics would disrupt the Olympics and our nation would become an object of worldwide scorn," Roh told a meeting reviewing Olympic preparations.
    14. Unfortunately, by my rough guess, he used better than 5,000 words heaping scorn on the witnesses for exercising the Fifth.
    15. The system has also produced a rock music video about a young Hispanic who overcomes his friends' scorn and his own academic and social difficulties and goes through college.
    16. Letters to the young Joyce show Yeats offering advice and practical help when Joyce came to London, although Joyce had poured scorn on the theatre when he was still in Dublin.
    17. President Bush's budget proposes a two-year test of such charges _ a proposal that has been greeted with scorn in Congress.
    18. Impassioned by their "new" discovery, the children discuss their scorn toward their parents, who were so eager to ingratiate themselves with the uncle who settled in Hawaii and married an American woman.
    19. Injuries were a cause for coachly scorn rather than sympathy, and players had to sneak around to get medical opinions other than those of team physicians.
    20. Nevertheless, the Republicans, known in the past for their smooth stagecraft, are sniffing in scorn at the Democrats' pandering to the entertainment ethic.
    21. For example, the Tianenman Square masacre focused the world's scorn on China as he raced to complete a major Chinese project.
    22. Individual presidents have been the targets of national scorn, even assassins.
    23. Like Corman, Carreras made films that were the objects of critical scorn, but developed a strong cult following.
    24. The policies were always Major's, yet we heaped our scorn on Norman.
    25. The Guangming Daily said a survey of nude female models in the eastern city of Nanking revealed they are subject to social scorn and often have difficulty finding boyfriends or husbands.
    26. And the object of his scorn isn't the right but former allies: workers, whom he now calls "lazy," and unions, whom he chastises for refusing to consider weekend work.
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