Insult
[ɪn'sʌlt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect; 'turning his back on me was a deliberate insult'.
編輯:米兰达--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) The act of leaping on; onset; attack.
(v. t.) Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity.
(v. t.) To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
(v. t.) To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by word or action; to abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult him.
(v. i.) To leap or jump.
(v. i.) To behave with insolence; to exult.
編輯:思朋斯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Affront, offence, indignity, outrage, abuse.
v. a. Affront, offend, abuse, treat with insolence, offer an indignity to.
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同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Affront, abuse,[See INDIGNITY]
SYN:Affront, outrage, dishonor, provoke, mock, ridicule
ANT:Respect, salute, honor, praise, flatter, compliment, gratify
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解釋/意思:
v.t. to treat with indignity or contempt: to abuse: to affront.—n. (in′sult) abuse: affront: contumely.—adjs. Insult′able capable of being insulted; Insult′ant (rare) insulting.—n. Insult′er (obs.) one who makes an attack.—adj. Insult′ing conveying insult: insolent: contemptuous.—adv. Insult′ingly in an insulting or insolent manner.—n. Insult′ment (Shak.) insult.
校對:迈克尔
例句/造句/用法:
- Forced to fly her husband's roof by this insult, the coward had pursued his revenge by taking her child from her. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Fond as I was of her, I felt indignantly the insult offered to me in that reply. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Have I no claim to be spared the insult of your asking me what you have done? 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Tucked away out of sight, I dare say, thought Jo, who could forgive her own wrongs, but hotly resented any insult offered her family. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- To have imposed any derogatory work upon him, would have been to inflict a wanton insult on the feelings of a most respectable man. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- She was stung, as if this were an insult. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Never by word or deed have you attempted to take advantage of my defenceless condition to insult or torture me. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Never, if Saint Antoine knew his own sufferings, insults, and wrongs! 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- He is made of venomous insults and affronts, from the crown of his head to the sole of his foot. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- How there were more years; more impertinences, ignorances, and insults. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Thou never had one, Pilar told him, the insults having reached the ultimate formalism in Spanish in which the acts are never stated but only implied. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- There he perched, hurling taunts and insults at the raging, foaming beast fifty feet below him. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Haven't you yourself declared that the fellow has heaped provocations, insults, and affronts on you, or something to that effect? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Perhaps the insults of the men were not, however, so intolerable to her as the sympathy of certain women. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- In the old days I would have insulted them and picked a fight. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- She looked me over, from head to foot, as she might have looked at a stranger who had insulted her. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The permission to strike when insulted will be an 'antidote' to the knife and will prevent disturbances in the State. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Quite the contrary, retorted Meyler, you are the man he has most insulted. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- He had previously made her the happiest of human beings, and now he had insulted--she knew not what to say, how to class, or how to regard it. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- The Jesuits, in a phase of ascendancy, persecuted and insulted the Buddhists with great acrimony. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I don't know what you think--I was never so insulted before in my life! 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- It appeared to ascend them, not very promptly or spontaneously, yet with a display of stride and clatter meant to be insulting. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- It is insulting my pride to suppose that. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Why, he has written me the most insulting letter possible. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Mr. Osborne, said Dobbin, with a faltering voice, it's you who are insulting the best creature in the world. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- She was proud and insulting, and you wanted to go away from her. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Lord Kinnaird heard nothing as applied to himself, never having dreamed of such a thing as insulting or picking a quarrel with young Lambton. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Keep a civil tongue in your head, cried the young man, his face paling in anger, at the insulting tone of the sailor. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
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