spurn
spurn 英 [spɜ:n] 美 [spɜrn]
vt. 唾弃；冷落；一脚踢开 vi. 摒弃；藐视 n. 藐视，摒弃；踢开
进行时:spurning 过去式:spurned 过去分词:spurned 第三人称单数:spurns
- If you reject your mother's offer to buy you a pair of lederhosen with a snort and eye roll, you are spurning her generosity. To spurn means to reject with disdain.
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- vt. 唾弃；冷落；一脚踢开
- vi. 摒弃；藐视
- n. 藐视，摒弃；踢开
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1. And the Lord said to Moses, "How long will this people spurn Me, and how long will they have no faith in Me despite all the signs that I have performed in their midst?
上帝对摩西说“这些人要藐视我到几时“,他们还要不相信我到几时,当我在他们中间显示了一切神迹以后？
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2. If I pitied you for crying and looking so very frightened, you should spurn such pity.
如果我为了你的哭和你这非常害怕的神气来怜悯你，你也应该拒绝这怜悯。
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3. I asked, hurt that this guy, of all people, would spurn me.
我问，有些伤心。 这个人，所有的人，仿佛看不起拒绝了我。
- spurn (v.) Old English spurnan "to kick (away), strike against; reject, scorn, despise," from Proto-Germanic *spurnon (source also of Old Saxon and Old High German spurnan, Old Frisian spurna, Old Norse sporna "to kick, drive away with the feet"), from PIE root *spere- "ankle" (source also of Middle Dutch spoor "track of an animal," Greek sphyron "ankle," Latin spernere "to reject, spurn," Sanskrit sphurati "kicks," Middle Irish seir "heel"). Related: Spurned; spurning.
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