contempt
contempt 英 [kənˈtempt] 美 [kənˈtɛmpt]
n. 轻视，蔑视
名词复数:contempts
- Reserve the noun contempt for an extreme lack of respect: a food snob has nothing but contempt for mass-produced burgers and fries at a fast-food joint.
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- n. 轻视，蔑视
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1. She looked at him with contempt.
她轻蔑地看着他。
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2. Politicians seem to be generally held in contemptby ordinary people.
一般百姓似乎普遍看不起从政者。
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3. They had shown a contempt for the values she thought important.
他们对她所认为重要的价值表示蔑视。
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4. The firefighters showed a contempt for their own safety.
那些消防队员已把他们自己的安全置之度外。
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5. He could be jailed for two years for contempt.
他由于藐视法庭可能被监禁两年。
- contempt (n.) late 14c., "open disregard or disobedience" (of authority, the law, etc.); general sense of "act of despising, scorn for what is mean, vile, or worthless" is from c. 1400; from Old French contempt, contemps, and directly Latin contemptus "scorn," from past participle of contemnere "to scorn, despise," from assimilated form of com-, here probably an intensive prefix (see com-), + *temnere "to slight, scorn," which is of uncertain origin.
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