MAKE FUN OFSMILEto smile or speak in a very unkind way that shows you have no respect for someone or something 冷笑;嘲笑;讥讽
‘Is that your best outfit?’ he sneered.
“那就是你最好的衣服了?”他讥笑道。
sneer at
She sneered at Tom’s musical tastes.
她嘲笑汤姆的音乐品位。
—sneeringadjectiveadj
a sneering tone
嘲笑的口吻
—sneeringlyadverbadv
Examples from the Corpus
sneer• "I wouldn't be seen in public wearing that, " Janina sneered.• As she read the letter, she started to sneer.• Instead of helping, they just sat and sneered.• Camelssneered and lurched to their feet, crocodilesyawned like man-traps.• Hillary Clinton sneered at a llama that some one brought to a rally in Pennsylvania.• He wanted to prove something to the critics who had sneered at his paintings.• It is easy to sneer at the credulous pilgrims.• She'd not forgotten how Gareth had laughed and sneered at them when they'd first tried to be friendly.• He had shined on innumerablelessons, sneered at too many ideas, turned thumbs-down on the mind.• So many years a teacher, you know it all! she sneered, feeling her face twistgrey and cold.• Some clients would sneer or smile sarcastically when I showed them my old laptop -- until they saw what it could do.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + SNEER | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤arrogant傲慢的冷笑▸➤faint, slight一絲嘲笑VERB + SNEER➤give露出輕蔑笑容◇He gave an arrogant sneer.他露出傲慢輕蔑的笑容。➤curl into, turn into, twist into變成輕蔑的笑容◇The smile slowly turned into a sneer.那微笑慢慢露出輕蔑之意。◇Her lips twisted into a sneer.她一撇嘴,露出輕蔑的笑容。➤hide隱藏譏笑PREPOSITION➤with a sneer嘲諷地PHRASES➤a sneer in your voice聲音中透出的嘲諷▸➤a sneer on sb's face某人臉上流露出的嘲諷