Ridicule
['rɪdɪkjuːl] or ['rɪdɪ'kjʊl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate.
(verb.) subject to laughter or ridicule; 'The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house'; 'The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher'; 'His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday'.
埃斯特拉編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.
(n.) Remarks concerning a subject or a person designed to excite laughter with a degree of contempt; wit of that species which provokes contemptuous laughter; disparagement by making a person an object of laughter; banter; -- a term lighter than derision.
(n.) Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
(v. t.) To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting.
(a.) Ridiculous.
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同義詞及近義詞:
n. Derision, mockery, raillery, satire, sarcasm, gibe, jeer, sneer, banter.
v. a. Deride (sportively), mock, scout, satirize, lampoon, jeer, taunt, rally, banter, chaff, laugh at, scoff at, treat with ridicule, hold up to ridicule, make game of, make a fool of, point the finger at, make fun of, make merry with, make a butt of, POKE FUN AT.
校對:迈克尔
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Derision, banter, raillery, burlesque, caricature, mockery, irony, satire,sarcasm, jeer, sneer, cachinnation, disrespect
ANT:Veneration, respect, deference, salutation, honor, homage
SYN:Lampoon, deride, mock_at, laugh_at, jeer,[See REVOKE_and_REVERSIBLE]
整理:莱缪尔
解釋/意思:
n. wit exposing one to laughter: derision: mockery.—v.t. to laugh at: to expose to merriment: to deride: to mock.—n. Rid′i cūler.—v.t. Ridic′ūlise.—n. Ridicūlos′ity.—adj. Ridic′ūlous deserving or exciting ridicule: absurd: (obs.) outrageous.—adv. Ridic′ūlously.—n. Ridic′ūlousness.
校對:南森
娱乐性解釋/意思:
n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them. It may be graphic mimetic or merely rident. Shaftesbury is quoted as having pronounced it the test of truth—a ridiculous assertion for many a solemn fallacy has undergone centuries of ridicule with no abatement of its popular acceptance. What for example has been more valorously derided than the doctrine of Infant Respectability?
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例句/造句/用法:
- His opponents tried to badger him in every way they could, and ridicule even his modest statements. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- But it has been the study of my life to avoid those weaknesses which often expose a strong understanding to ridicule. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- He started up red (for he was as sensitive to ridicule as any girl). 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- In full sight of whom, the malignant star of the Analytical has pre-ordained that pain and ridicule shall befall him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Everybody is ready to dislike and ridicule any invention. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Mr. Winsor's absurd statements--in the truth of which he potently believed--and the wild, random manner of making them known, excited much ridicule and opposition. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- We are above reason; we are beyond ridicule; we see with nobody's eyes, we hear with nobody's ears, we feel with nobody's hearts, but our own. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I never saw her ridiculed before. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- As he fights he wins approval and advancement; as he refrains, he is disliked, ridiculed, shut out from favorable recognition. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Such a character of God, if not ridiculed by our young men, is likely to be imitated by them. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- These people whom she had ridiculed and yet envied were glad to make a place for her in the charmed circle about which all her desires revolved. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- By this means the attention of the public was fixed on that paper, and Keimer's proposals, which we burlesqued and ridiculed, were disregarded. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The laugh was so strange that Lily coloured under it: she disliked being ridiculed, and her father seemed to see something ridiculous in the request. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- She scornfully ridiculed the idea. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- They were talking out loudly about Birkin, ridiculing him on every point, particularly on his marriage. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Pockets, women's ridicules, houses, mail-coaches, banks! 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
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