contempt
If you have contempt for someone or something, you have no respect for them or think that they are unimportant.
Contempt means the same as contempt of court.
If you hold someone or something in contempt, you feel contempt for them
基本介紹
- 中文名：輕視，蔑視；恥辱
- 外文名：contempt
- 詞類：名詞
- 語言：英語
簡介,英語字典,
簡介
contempt /k渂'tempt/ DJ
noun
the feeling that sb/sth is without value and deserves no respect at all 蔑視；輕蔑；鄙視 ~ (for sb/sth) uncountable singular
例句：
She looked at him with contempt.
她輕蔑地看著他。
I shall treat that suggestion with the contempt it deserves.
我對那項建議當然會不屑一顧。
His treatment of his children is beneath contempt(= so unacceptable that it is not even worth feeling contempt for).
他對待自己子女的那種行徑為人所不齒。
Politicians seem to be generally held in contempt by the police.
政治家們似乎普遍受到警察的輕視。
They had shown a contempt for the values she thought important.
他們對她所認為重要的價值表示蔑視。
a lack of worry or fear about rules, danger, etc. （對規則、危險等的）藐視，不顧 ~ for sth uncountable singular
例句：
The firefighters showed a contempt for their own safety.
那些消防隊員已把他們自己的安全置之度外。
His remarks betray a staggering contempt for the truth(= are completely false).
他的話表明他完全無視事情的真相。
He could be jailed for two years for contempt.
他由於藐視法庭可能被監禁兩年。
She was held in contempt for refusing to testify.
她因拒絕作證而被判藐視法庭罪。
英語字典
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