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scoff

英 [skɒf] 美[skɔf]
  • n. 嘲笑;愚弄;笑柄
  • vt. 嘲笑;嘲弄;贪婪地吃
  • vi. 嘲笑;嘲弄;狼吞虎咽

CET6+TEM8GRECET6低频词常用词汇

词态变化


第三人称单数: scoffs;过去式: scoffed;过去分词: scoffed;现在分词: scoffing;

助记提示


1. 谐音“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,当然会被嘲笑了。
3. scofflaw => scoff.

中文词源


scoff 嘲笑,嘲弄

来自古诺斯语 skop,嘲笑,嘲讽,同古英语 scop,游吟诗人,来自 Proto-Germanic*skapiz,形成, 创作,来自 PIE*skep,砍,切,削,词源同 shape.

英文词源


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.)).

双语例句


1. You may scoff but I honestly feel I'm being cruel only to be kind.
你可能不以为然,但我真的认为我狠下心来只是出于一片好意。

来自柯林斯例句

2. You are not supposed to scoff at religion .
你不该嘲弄宗教。

来自辞典例句

3. Citizens of other cities may scoff at Melbourne's brown river.
其他城市的居民或许会嘲笑墨尔本的褐色泥浆河.

来自百科语句

4. I was no more to her than a morsel of scoff in the fuel - house.
我在她的眼里还不如柴房里的一小堆木屑.

来自辞典例句

5. There was purpose and feeling, banter and scoff playing, mingled , on her mobile lineaments.
在她那变幻无常的外貌上,既有决心,又有感情,既有嘲弄, 又有戏虐和开玩笑的神色.

来自辞典例句