gainsay
gainsay 英 [ˌgeɪnˈseɪ] 美 [ɡenˈse, ˈɡenˌse]
vt. 反驳；否定 n. 否认；反对
进行时:gainsaying 过去式:gainsaid 过去分词:gainsaid 第三人称单数:gainsays
- Gainsay, a verb, means "contradict" or "speak out against." When you challenge authority, you gainsay, as in teachers don't like it when unruly students gainsay them.
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- vt. 反驳；否定
- n. 否认；反对
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1. And who were we to gainsay her decision to relinquish her child?
在我们当中，又有谁能够不同意她放弃自己的孩子呢？
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2. The doctors certainly think so, and who am I to gainsay them?
医生确定地这麽认为，而且我是谁否定他们？
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3. Beyond gainsay it is a genuine Rembrandt.
无可否认地，那是真的伦布兰特（的画）。
- gainsay (v.) "contradict, deny, dispute," c. 1300, literally "say against," from gain- (Old English gegn- "against;" see again) + say (v.). In Middle English it translates Latin contradicere. "Solitary survival of a once common prefix" [Weekley]. It also figured in such now-obsolete compounds as gain-taking "taking back again," gainclap "a counterstroke," gainbuy "redeem," Gaincoming "Second Advent," and gainstand "to oppose." Related: Gainsaid; gainsaying.
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