詞彙精選：scorn的用法和辨析

一、詳細釋義：

n.

輕蔑；藐視 [U]

例句：

The ancient scorn of the vestals for the ambubajae is one of the most profound instincts of feminine dignity.

貞女對蕩婦的那種自古已然的蔑視，是婦德中一種最悠久的本能。

例句：

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

沉默是藐視最完美的表達方式。

嘲笑；奚落；笑柄 [U]

例句：

He is a target for scorn.

他是嘲笑的目標。

例句：

But his conciliatory talk was met with scorn by many Zelaya supporters, including this man.

但是，米切萊蒂這一和解姿態受到很多塞拉亞支持者的嘲笑。

藐視（或嘲笑）的對象

v.

（表示）輕蔑，藐視 [I,T]

例句：

He used to heap scorn on Dr Vazquez's socialist ideas.

他以前總是嘲笑巴斯克斯博士的社會主義觀點。

例句：

They have learnt to scorn difficulties.

他們學會了藐視困難。

拒絕；不屑做 [T]

例句：

How would they scorn to do what you have done.

他們不屑於做你做的事。

例句：

He scorned my help.

他不屑接受我的幫助。

嘲笑 [I]

例句：

Here, there are no bankers of failed institutions to scorn.

在這裏，沒有破產金融機構的銀行家可以嘲笑。

例句：

I've taught him to scorn everything extra-animal as silly and weak.

我教他嘲笑一切獸性以外的東西，認爲這些是愚蠢和軟弱的。

二、詞義辨析：

despise,scorn,look down upon

這些動詞或短語動詞均表示“輕視，蔑視”之意。despise指由於卑鄙、軟弱，渺小或無價值等而被輕視。scorn語氣較強，指極端的蔑視，常伴有憤怒或惱怒的情感。 look down upon指自視地位優越而蔑視他人或事。

三、參考例句：

They have learnt to scorn difficulties.

他們學會了藐視困難。

The artist looked at her with scorn.

藝術家以蔑視的眼光看着她。

He eyed me with a terrible scorn.

他極其輕蔑地打量着我。

Will there be scorn and division

將來還會被嘲笑、還會有分歧嗎？

You've no right to scorn a poor girl.

你沒有權利看不起一個可憐的女孩。

Sequins have often aroused the scorn of arbiters of taste.

閃光裝飾片經常引起時尚引領者的鄙視。

The small weak child became the scorn of the class.

這個瘦小軟弱的孩子成爲全班嘲笑的對象。

How would they scorn to do what you have done.

他們不屑於做你做的事。

But his conciliatory talk was met with scorn by many Zelaya supporters, including this man.

但是，米切萊蒂這一和解姿態受到很多塞拉亞支持者的嘲笑。

I scorn to be taken by an English craft under French colors.

我決不會被一件上了法國油彩的英國工藝品騙上的。