Snub
[snʌb]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a refusal to recognize someone you know; 'the snub was clearly intentional'.
(adj.) unusually short; 'a snub nose' .
戈代娃手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To sob with convulsions.
(v. t.) To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of; to nop.
(v. t.) To check, stop, or rebuke, with a tart, sarcastic reply or remark; to reprimand; to check.
(v. t.) To treat with contempt or neglect, as a forward or pretentious person; to slight designedly.
(n.) A knot; a protuberance; a song.
(n.) A check or rebuke; an intended slight.
編輯:纽曼
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Nip, clip, dock, prune, cut short, cut down.[2]. Check (with a tart remark), reprimand, reprove, rebuke, chide.[3]. Abash (as a pretentious person), humble, humiliate, shame, mortify, confound, disconcert, discomfit, BLUFF, put down, take down, put to shame, make ashamed, take down a peg, send away with a flea in one's ear, teach one one's distance.
艾莉森編輯
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Mortify, check, rebuke, reprimand,[See CRINGE_and_SKULK]
唐尼手打
解釋/意思:
v.t. to check to reprimand: to slight intentionally to rebuff by a cutting remark or retort:—pr.p. snub′bing; pa.t. and pa.p. snubbed.—n. an act of snubbing any deliberate slight.—adjs. Snub flat and broad with the end slightly turned up; Snub′bish inclined to snub or check; Snub′by somewhat snub.—n. Snub′-nose a short or flat nose.—adj. Snub′-nosed.—ns. Snub′- Snub′bing-post a post round which a rope is wound to check the motion of a horse or boat.—Snub a cable to check it suddenly in running out.
整理:罗德尼
例句/造句/用法:
- But, after having let herself be surprised in a falsehood, it was doubly stupid to snub the witness of her discomfiture. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Confronted with a novelty, the first impulse is to snub it, and send it into exile. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- That same morning, a little girl in a brown hat and blue dress, with a round face and snub nose, went and bought it for her mother. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- I expected as much: it would not be you if you did not snub one. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- They were afraid to snub me while they thought I was going to get the money--afterward they scuttled off as if I had the plague. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- There are all sorts of noses, snub and otherwise-' Gerald laughed. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- You've kept close to that starched-up Englishwoman all day, and now you snub me. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Napoleon, thwarted of a Russian princess, snubbed indeed by Alexander, turned to Austria, and married the arch-duchess Marie Louise. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It was overshadowed by a dome so mighty that its own height was snubbed. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The worst of it was that she had always snubbed and ignored him. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Lefferts--who made love to her and got snubbed for it! 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- What you really meant was that you've snubbed the Brys horribly; and you know that they know---- Carry! 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Don't like him, he puts on airs, snubs his sisters, worries his father, and doesn't speak respectfully of his mother. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- The worst of it is, she snubs the Brys now, he heard irrelevantly flung after him. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
校對:特伦斯