taunting 嘲弄
- The mime keeps taunting the lion, the crowds grow larger, and his salary keeps going up.
哑剧演员一直嘲弄狮子,观众人数也大增,还有他的薪水也跟着上涨。 - While some students think taunting their LGBT classmates is funny, the network teaches that it is no laughing matter.
一些学生以嘲弄他们的LGBT同学取乐,而该联盟网络教育学生们认识到,这不是开玩笑的事。 - No longer is the question the taunting jest of skeptics for whom unbelief is the test of wisdom and for whom Nietzsche is the prophet who gave the right answer a century ago.
这不再是怀疑主义者用来嘲弄无神论者智慧的问题,也不是自封为穆罕默德的尼采一个世纪前给出正确答案的问题。
taunting[ noun ]- aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing
<noun.act>
[ adj ]- abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule
<adj.all>
derisive laughter
a jeering crowd
her mocking smile
taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'
Taunt \Taunt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Taunted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Taunting}.] [Earlier, to tease; probably fr. OF. tanter to
tempt, to try, for tenter. See {Tempt}.]
To reproach with severe or insulting words; to revile; to
upbraid; to jeer at; to flout.
When I had at my pleasure taunted her. --Shak.
Syn: To deride; ridicule; mock; jeer; flout; revile. See
{Deride}.
Taunting \Taunt"ing\,
a. & n. from {Taunt}, v.
Every kind of insolent and taunting reflection.
--Burke.