scoff
英[sk?f]
美[sk?f]
- 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
詞態變化
第三人稱單數:?scoffs;過去式:?scoffed;過去分詞:?scoffed;現在分詞:?scoffing;
助記提示
1. 諧音“是夸父”------夸父逐日，不自量力，被嘲笑。
2. 夸父逐日，不自量力，最后被活活的渴死，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,游吟詩人，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只是出于一片好意。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. You are not supposed to scoff at religion .
- 你不該嘲弄宗教。
來自辭典例句
- 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.
來自百科語句
- 4. I was no more to her than a morsel of scoff in the fuel - house.
- 我在她的眼里還不如柴房里的一小堆木屑.
來自辭典例句
- 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.
來自辭典例句