Infamy
['ɪnfəmɪ] or ['ɪnfəmi]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) evil fame or public reputation.
(noun.) a state of extreme dishonor; 'a date which will live in infamy'- F.D.Roosevelt; 'the name was a by-word of scorn and opprobrium throughout the city'.
手打:西摩--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Total loss of reputation; public disgrace; dishonor; ignominy; indignity.
(n.) A quality which exposes to disgrace; extreme baseness or vileness; as, the infamy of an action.
(n.) That loss of character, or public disgrace, which a convict incurs, and by which he is at common law rendered incompetent as a witness.
整理:尼古拉斯
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Dishonor, disgrace, discredit, disrepute, shame, ignominy, obloquy, opprobrium, odium, scandal, abasement.[2]. Disgracefulness, dishonorableness, shamefulness, odiousness, detestableness, scandalousness, wickedness, atrocity, villany.
編輯:维姬
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Despair, degradation, disgrace, ignominy, obloquy, extreme_vileness, dishonor
ANT:Honor, reputation, celebrity, glory, renown
編輯:谢尔顿
例句/造句/用法:
- He died of grief for the loss, and shame for the infamy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- It will end in infamy, sooner or later. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Or you shall stoop to the lowest infamy of all, and force your way out. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped with Infamy_. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Some passing thought of the infamy and disgrace for which it had been reserved, may have struck the prisoner's mind. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Nothing causes greater vanity than any shining quality in our relations; as nothing mortifies us more than their vice or infamy. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Do you assert, sir, that something in which _I_ am concerned will end in infamy? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The virtue of a brother must make me love him; as his vice or infamy must excite the contrary passion. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- I have kept your infamy a secret, she answered. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Whatever he might afterwards persuade her to, it was not on her side a _scheme_ of infamy. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
錄入:莱斯特