| 词汇 | flout |
| 释义 | flout verb[ T ] uk /flaʊt/ us /flaʊt/ to intentionally not obey a rule, law, or custom: 公然藐视，无视，违背（规定、法律或习俗） Many motorcyclists flout the law by not wearing helmets.许多骑摩托车的人无视法律，不戴头盔。 flout conventionThe orchestra decided to flout convention, and wear their everyday clothes for the concert. flout traditionThe show flouted traditions of respect for authority. Obeying & breaking the law abide abide by something adhere adhere to something afoul bac buck commission comply contravene derogation disobey enforcer fall foul of somethingidiom go by the book guiltiness infraction infringement shalt violation flout | American Dictionaryflout verb[ T ] us/flɑʊt/ to intentionally disobey a rule or law, or to intentionally avoid behavior that is usual or expected: They think they can flout the law and get away with it. He conducted business in his pajamas to flout convention. Examples of floutflout Her expectations of love and protection in her domestic life had been egregiously flouted. Institutions and individuals can subvert, ignore, or flout the best-intended laws. This assumption, though, is daily flouted in standard linguistic practice. First, conservatives attached civil rights to lawlessness by arguing that civil disobedience flouted laws and would inevitably lead to more lawless behavior. The only support from the state is their tax-exempt status and some dubious preferential policies, often flouted by state bureaux and public utilities. On the face of it, this also flouts transparency leaving a murky region of discretion. Indeed, so ingrained was this marital system that unconventional marriages-that is, marriages that flouted traditional expectations-stand out as especially obvious political statements. That question will normally come to consciousness only when the convention is flouted, as it occasionally is, facetiously. That would, however, have flouted the unsuitability principal. Many of these procedures involve value judgments, and some appear to flout the conventional canons for the conduct of cost-effectiveness analysis. When asked to pay the same, they requested the authorities to desist from flouting traditions. Why do candidates flout the dictates of issue ownership? Throughout the 1920s, the bakery owners routinely flouted the contract's clauses and adamantly refused to accept the closed shop. In addition, the party and state had well-established rules, procedures and political organs that were not, at a national level, routinely flouted. It may be that in 1668-9 he did attempt more general restrictions on music that were extensively flouted and therefore became unenforceable. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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