IGNOREREJECT/NOT ACCEPTto treat someone rudely, especially by ignoring them when you meet 冷落,怠慢,对…不予理睬
the boys who had snubbed her in high school
在中学里曾经冷落她的那些男孩
Examples from the Corpus
snub• That offer, too, has been snubbed.• High-schoolers will often snub anyone they feel is different or strange.• When the collegeinvited him to speak, he was snubbed by students who felt his policies were unfair to minorities.• The senator was furious. ""How would you feel if you'd been snubbed by the wife of your president?''• I hope the stuffy Royals who snubbed her now appreciate her honesty.• They snubbed his invitation to a meeting of foreignministers at the UN in New York.• The foredeck man snubbed it on the cleat.• I couldn't believe Simon had snubbed me at the party.• Executives who had once snubbedMiller were now calling him to chat.• The editors' snubbing of their contributions would one day prove shortsighted.• The experimenters there for the most part snubbed the newcomer.• And since Al has decided to snub the press, he is in the unfortunate position of having to answer for him.• Rosanna felt snubbed when she wasn't invited to the wedding.
snub2 noun [countableC]
IGNOREREJECT/NOT ACCEPTan act of snubbing someone 冷落,怠慢,不理睬
ADJECTIVE | VERB + SNUB | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤deliberate故意的怠慢◇a deliberate snub to the ambassador對大使的故意怠慢➤apparent明顯的怠慢➤embarrassing, humiliating令人尷尬的/讓人蒙羞的怠慢VERB + SNUB➤deliver sb (BrE) 冷落某人◇He took the opportunity to deliver us another snub.他借機再次冷落我們。➤receive受到冷落➤interpret sth as, regard sth as, see sth as, take sth as將⋯理解為怠慢;認為⋯是冷落;視⋯為怠慢◇These references were widely seen as a snub to the President.人們普遍認為提及這些事是對總統的怠慢。➤intend sth as, mean sth as做⋯有意冷落◇It was never intended as a snub.這絕非有意怠慢。➤amount to, represent等於/相當於冷落◇The deal amounts to something of a snub for the rival online music company.做這筆交易等於是有些冷落了對手的在線音樂公司。PREPOSITION➤as a snub當作冷落▸➤snub by被⋯冷落◇Some are suggesting that it was a snub by the French.有人說那表示受到了法國人的冷落。➤snub for, snub to對⋯的怠慢◇His withdrawal from the event was seen as a deliberate snub to the organizers.他的退賽被認為是對組織者的有意怠慢。➤snub of (especially NAmE) ⋯的怠慢◇an unintentional snub of President Johnson約翰遜總統無心的怠慢snub
verb
ADVERB | PHRASESADVERB➤deliberately故意怠慢▸➤publicly公開冷落▸➤rudely無禮怠慢PHRASES➤feel snubbed感到受冷落◇He was not invited to the party, and felt snubbed.他未獲邀請參加聚會,感到受了冷落。