scoff是什麽意思

scoff

英 [skɒf] 美 [skɔf]

n. 嘲笑；愚弄；笑柄
vt. 嘲笑；嘲弄；貪婪地吃
vi. 嘲笑；嘲弄；狼吞虎咽

助記提示

1. 諧音“是誇父”------誇父逐日，不自量力，被嘲笑。
2. 誇父逐日，不自量力，最後被活活的渴死，當然會被嘲笑了。
3. scofflaw => scoff.

中文詞源

scoff 嘲笑，嘲弄

來自古諾斯語 skop,嘲笑，嘲諷，同古英語 scop,遊吟詩人，來自 Proto-Germanic*skapiz,形成，創作，來自 PIE*skep,砍，切，削，詞源同 shape.

英文詞源

scoff (v.): mid-14c., "jest, make light of something;" mid-15c., "make fun of, mock," from the noun meaning "contemptuous ridicule" (c. 1300), from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse skaup, skop "mockery, ridicule," Middle Danish skof "jest, mockery;" perhaps from Proto-Germanic *skub-, *skuf- (cognates: Old English scop "poet," Old High German scoph "fiction, sport, jest, derision"), from PIE *skeubh- "to shove" (see shove (v.)).

雙語例句

1. You may scoff but I honestly feel I'm being cruel only to be kind.: 你可能不以為然，但我真的認為我狠下心來隻是出於一片好意。

2. You are not supposed to scoff at religion .: 你不該嘲弄宗教。

3. Citizens of other cities may scoff at Melbourne's brown river.: 其他城市的居民或許會嘲笑墨爾本的褐色泥漿河.

4. I was no more to her than a morsel of scoff in the fuel - house.: 我在她的眼裏還不如柴房裏的一小堆木屑.

5. There was purpose and feeling, banter and scoff playing, mingled , on her mobile lineaments.: 在她那變幻無常的外貌上,既有決心,又有感情,既有嘲弄, 又有戲虐和開玩笑的神色.

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