| 词汇 | deride |
| 释义 | deride verb[ T ] formaluk /dɪˈraɪd/ us /dɪˈraɪd/ to laugh at or show no respect for someone or something, because you think they are stupid or of no value: deride someone/something as somethingHe derided my singing as pathetic.他嘲笑说我的歌声不堪入耳。 This building, once derided by critics, is now a major tourist attraction.这座曾被评论家嘲笑的建筑如今已成为一处主要的旅游景点。 Mocking and taunting caricature deride someone/something as something derision derisive derisively lampoon make a mockery of somethingidiom make a monkey out of someoneidiom mimic mimicry mock mockery mocking piss sardonically scoff scoffer self-caricature self-mockery tauntingly deride | American Dictionaryderide verb[ T ] us/dɪˈrɑɪd/ to show that you think someone or something is ridiculous or of no value: His blustery style is derided by many political pros. Examples of deridederide Scholars and visitors unofficially deride it as 'inauthentic' and little worthy of investigation. The recovery of the euro did belie critics who had initially derided it as a weak currency. They deride their attempts to manipulate workers' grievances for political ends. One explanation is that they are deriding any human attempt to solve their riddles, to evade their power. Interestingly enough, the phrase which was used to describe a reality was used by a few to deride the same reality. The grotteschi were often derided by contemporaries (typically the literati, for the style was highly popular with the public) as vulgar buffoons. Before condemning them or deriding such practices, we recall that changes of method were aimed at improving the precision of the figures. To be considered thus: why do outsiders deride the life of imagination and representation? His proposal was quickly derided and dismissed by the great powers. An approaching sister-in-law may be derided sotto voce as a 'balla' (monster) or 'badda' (bad), before being greeted cordially. On the one hand, the formidable traditional forces arrayed against it are explained and derided. All the while, the orchestra derides his effort. He derided the effort, stating that they were too low in quality to be useful. He derided authority, mocking it, chastening it, and inviting us to laugh at our own reverence for it and for the author himself. The shrieks of laughter of the young men were hardly 'ambivalent', hardly 'asserting and denying', 'triumphant and deriding'. 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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