词汇 | deriding |
释义 | deriding present 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 deridingderiding In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. One explanation is that they are deriding any human attempt to solve their riddles, to evade their power. Before condemning them or deriding such practices, we recall that changes of method were aimed at improving the precision of the figures. The shrieks of laughter of the young men were hardly 'ambivalent', hardly 'asserting and denying', 'triumphant and deriding'. No one is deriding the fact that at the end of the day the consumer, in one way or another, will have to pay. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I was amused to hear commentators on the radio deriding him for that—they said that the buses would be replaced within 10 years anyway. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We need an objective base, and we must depart from such power words as fear, from stirring up fear, from deriding things. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English What would they do about the measures which they have been deriding for the past year, which are now beginning to succeed? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Indeed, they have spent the last 18 months or so deriding and destroying those policies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What is the point politically of deriding the national health service? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is about time that the party opposite also acknowledged this instead of deriding it every couple of minutes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is now enjoying himself deriding that opinion poll, but that is not what was asked. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That does not in any sense mean that we are ignoring or deriding the rights of petitioners. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no question of deriding the position of small districts or decrying their work. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He supported the poll tax throughout by voting for it, arguing its merits and deriding those who opposed it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We still have recognisably different regions, and, rather than deriding it, we should cherish this important fact. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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