disdain

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dis·dain1 /dɪsˈdeɪn/ noun [uncountableU] formal

REJECT/NOT ACCEPTa complete lack of respect that you show for someone or something because you think they are not important or good enough 鄙视，轻视，藐视

with disdain

She watched me with disdain.

她鄙视地看着我。

a look of complete disdain

极为鄙视的样子

disdain for

his disdain for capitalism

他对资本主义的蔑视

Examples from the Corpus

disdain• Communist disdain for the environment made matters worse.• The most obvious: His expressed concern for the environment and his disdain for technology.• Now the carbon-dioxide snow gleamed white beneath the icy disdain of the stars.• They remained aloof from the front row out of disdain and from the back row out of a sense of responsibility.• Predictably, the international media circus, with its Olympian disdain for the parochial, has long since moved on.• The Shah had sometimes shown disdain for many such people.• His father noticed them too but regarded them with disdain.

disdain for• They expressed disdain for Western pop culture.

disdain2 verb formal

1 [transitiveT]REJECT/NOT ACCEPT to have no respect for someone or something, because you think they are not important or good enough 鄙视，轻视，藐视

Childcare was seen as women’s work, and men disdained it.

照看儿童被视为女人做的工作，男人对此很不屑。

2 disdain to do something formal REFUSEto refuse to do something because you are too proud to do it 不屑于做某事

Butler disdained to reply.

巴特勒不屑回答。

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disdain to do something• I disdained to consult a medical dictionary, however.• Even the casual Aranyos did not disdain to make the sign.• Tom Butler disdained to reply to such a trivial question.• Even the trendiest of today's celebrity chefs does not disdain to slosh it around.• Bach himself did not disdain to transcribe Vivaldi concertos for organ or harpsichord and to borrow fugue-subjects from Legrenzi and Corelli.

Examples from the Corpus

disdain• But such simple fare he knew full well would be disdained.• I could see her proudly carrying on her head an amphora to a well and disdaining all admirers.• From boyhood he disdained an easy life.• He disdains New York and the art that is produced there.• In fact, Roy disdains the cowardice of anyone who plays the easier shot.• Along with his peers on the Board, Stark disdained them.• I disdained to consult a medical dictionary, however.• Even the casual Aranyos did not disdain to make the sign.• Throughout the Mekong delta, local officials who disdained Tu Duc nevertheless quit the provincial administration rather than submit to alien rule.

Origin disdain2

(1300-1400) Old French desdeignier, from deignier; → DEIGN

dis·dain1 noundisdain2 verb

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