Refute
[rɪ'fjuːt] or [ri'fjʊt]
解释:
(verb.) prove to be false or incorrect.
(verb.) overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof; 'The speaker refuted his opponent's arguments'.
布鲁诺录入--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To disprove and overthrow by argument, evidence, or countervailing proof; to prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; as, to refute arguments; to refute testimony; to refute opinions or theories; to refute a disputant.
编辑:罗德里克
同义词及近义词:
v. a. Confute, disprove, prove to be false.
整理:维维安
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Negative, disprove, neutralize, controvert, repel, confute
ANT:Prove, confirm, establish
达斯汀录入
解释:
v.t. to repel: to oppose: to disprove.—n. Rēfutabil′ity.—adj. Rēfū′table that may be refuted or disproved.—adv. Rēfū′tably.—n. Refutā′tion the act of refuting or disproving.—adj. Rēfū′tātory tending to refute: refuting.—n. Rēfū′ter one who or that which refutes.
伊妮德编辑
例句:
- Few have been able to withstand the seeming evidence of this argument; and yet nothing in the world is more easy than to refute it. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- It is impossible to refute a system, which has never yet been explained. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- My present business then must be to defend the definitions, and refute the demonstrations. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- Who wants a system on the basis of the four elements, or a book to refute Paracelsus? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- That was evidence which one could not well refute. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- On one occasion a correspondent put in my mouth the very charge I had so often refuted--of disloyalty. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- And public opinion, on this occasion, is not easily refuted. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Yet the chief of these reasons may perhaps be refuted by the imperfections of the performance. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The objection that popular government cannot be conducted without the two party system is, I believe, refuted by the experience of Europe. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- What happens in the course of action neither confirms, refutes, nor alters it. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
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