pejorative
pejorative 英 [pɪˈdʒɒrətɪv] 美 [pɪˈdʒɔrətɪv]
adj. 轻蔑的；[临床] 恶化的，变坏的 n. 轻蔑语
名词复数:pejoratives
- Call a word or phrase pejorative if it is used as a disapproving expression or a term of abuse. Tree-hugger is a pejorative term for an environmentalist.
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- adj. 轻蔑的；[临床] 恶化的，变坏的
- n. 轻蔑语
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1. At the end of the 19th century, an amateur meant someone who was motivated by the sheer love of doing something; professional was a rare, pejorative term for grubby money-making.
时间回转到十九世纪末，“业余爱好者”意味着一个人全身心地去做某事，中间不夹杂任何杂质；而“专业”则是一个罕见而带有轻蔑意味的词汇，被用于描述敛财的行为。
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2. The word sketchy here is not pejorative because millennia of philosophy of language have shown how hard (or even impossible) it is to come up with a truly rigorous model of natural language.
这里说粗略 并非轻视，因为数千年来的语言哲学表明要建立自然语言真正严格意义上的模型是很难的（甚至是不可能的）。
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3. In more recent years, at least judging from a search of the Post archives, cads, thugs, molesters, and swindlers have most frequently elicited what the paper might call the porcine pejorative.
在最近的这些年里，至少从对档案的数据库可以判断出，新闻报纸上更会经常使用像猪一样的这个轻蔑的词来指代无赖，恶棍，猥亵犯，骗子这类人。
- pejorative (adj.) "depreciative, disparaging," 1888, from French péjoratif, from Late Latin peiorat-, past participle stem of peiorare "make worse," from Latin peior "worse," perhaps originally "stumbling," from PIE *ped-yos-, suffixed (comparative) form of *ped- "to walk, stumble, impair," from root *ped- "foot." As a noun from 1882. English had a verb pejorate "to worsen" from 1640s.
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