| 词汇 | derided |
| 释义 | derided past simple and past participle ofderide deride verb[ T ] formaluk /dɪˈraɪd/ us /dɪˈraɪd/ to laugh at someone or something in a way that shows you think they are stupid or of no value: 嘲笑，讥笑 He 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 deride someone/something as something derision derisive haze lampoon make a mockery of somethingidiom make a monkey out of someoneidiom mimic mimicry mock mockery mocking parody scoff scoffer self-caricature self-mockery self-mocking Examples of deridedderided In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The recovery of the euro did belie critics who had initially derided it as a weak currency. The grotteschi were often derided by contemporaries (typically the literati, for the style was highly popular with the public) as vulgar buffoons. 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. Derided by critics as medieval and degrading, the veil allows women to draw their own lines in dividing public activities from private life. On the one hand, the formidable traditional forces arrayed against it are explained and derided. 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. Some folks who make the switch are derided as pretentious by siblings and childhood friends. The colonial texts regularly derided the manual system and called for its abolition. Enthusiasms are derided: evironmentalists are tree-huggers and live in twigloos, computer devotees are nerds and wonks, and practically anyone, it seems, can be an anorak. This criticism gained strength from the report's relatively heavy emphasis on 'lifestyle' factors in the determination of health status - an emphasis derided as a 'blame the victim' strategy. After noting the abundance, the editor derided the fact that so much was left untapped, concluding that under a strong government, this wealth would have been fully developed. During his own day he was regularly derided for various reasons by, among others, two rhetorically brilliant, highly partisan writers who openly insulted males on a fairly regular basis. The opposition would not tend to die out as quickly as it actually does, with its most ardent supporters being derided as fanatics, often by their co-religionists. 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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