Cynical
['sɪnɪk(ə)l] or ['sɪnɪkl]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others .
格思里整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Having the qualities of a surly dog; snarling; captious; currish.
(a.) Pertaining to the Dog Star; as, the cynic, or Sothic, year; cynic cycle.
(a.) Belonging to the sect of philosophers called cynics; having the qualities of a cynic; pertaining to, or resembling, the doctrines of the cynics.
(a.) Given to sneering at rectitude and the conduct of life by moral principles; disbelieving in the reality of any human purposes which are not suggested or directed by self-interest or self-indulgence; as, a cynical man who scoffs at pretensions of integrity; characterized by such opinions; as, cynical views of human nature.
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同義詞及近義詞：
a. Carping, censorious, satirical, sarcastic, captious, snarling, snappish, waspish, pettish, petulant, fretful, peevish, touchy, testy, crusty, churlish, crabbed, cross, morose, froward, surly, ill-tempered, ill-natured.
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同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Sarcastic, snarling, snappish, sneering, cross-grained, currish, carping
ANT:Genial, lenient, complaisant, urbane
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例句/造句/用法:
- The lad only answered by turning his cynical young face, half-arch, half-truculent, towards the paternal chair. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- This is cynical. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It may be interesting to tell a little of this intelligent and cynical man. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Their sole comment on what they saw was a cynical smile flashed into each other's stern eyes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It was the one thing he was never cynical about. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Very well, said the Demarch, with a cynical smile, which but ill became his pallid face; I will put you to the teSt Call in every one. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Karkov was not cynical about those times either when he talked. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- She felt already purely cynical. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- That had been the first big disillusion to him a few months back and he had started to be cynical to himself about it. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Don't get cynical. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- We are caught between the ignorant and the cynical. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The cynical indifference of legislatures and the hypocrisy of the dominant parties were all that politics had to offer. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Cross the threshold, and you found her completely, completely cynical about the social world and its advantages. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Mr. Helstone pushed out his cynical lip, wrinkled his brown forehead, and gave an inarticulate grunt. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- This cynical declaration is at least a recognition that the bond of union is not merely one of coercive force. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Then the reaction from this view as a cynical depreciation of human nature leads to the view that men who act nobly act with no interest at all. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Such incidents tend to justify Edison in his rather cynical remark that he has always been able to improve machinery much quicker than men. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
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