词汇 | discredited |
释义 | discredited past simple and past participle ofdiscredit discredit verb[ T ] formaluk /dɪˈskred.ɪt/ us /dɪˈskred.ɪt/ to cause people to stop respecting someone or believing in an idea or person: 使名誉受损;使受到怀疑 Evidence of links with drug dealers has discredited the mayor.市长与贩毒分子有瓜葛的证据使他名誉扫地。 discredited theories受到怀疑的理论 Humiliating and degrading abase abasement be under a cloudidiom bring/take someone down a peg (or two)idiom bruise someone's egoidiom debase dishonour dishonourable dishonourably doghouse exhibition ignominious ignominiously ignominy in the doghouseidiom indignity shoddy stoop stoop to something undignified Related wordsdiscreditable discreditably Examples of discrediteddiscredited In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The rest (and they are many) are either discredited or dismissed. With the regime's popularity and legitimacy discredited by these events, it sought ways to find a new source of legitimacy. An example maybe of evolutionary over-engineering, it is reminiscent of the discredited thesis that phylogeny necessarily recapitulates ontogeny. Late pregnancy and an illegitimate child are more difficult to conceal and therefore more likely to result in a 'discredited' situation. The final eclipse of "proletarian race hygiene" came when the notion that acquired traits could be inherited was discredited in biology. Coming on the heels of a discredited regime, reconstructive presidents re105. When it comes to architectural theory, historicism in the strict philosophical sense is surely largely discredited. To put it differently, the moral of the small-state realism remained when small-state realism itself was discredited. In the early twentieth century, examination of rhyme came to be discredited as a procedure for analyzing the phonology of language. How can the abstract notion or idea of authority remain sacred when all around its embodiments are being discredited? Both the army and the regime were also discredited. It was the emergence of the documentary tradition in the nineteenth century as the mark of professional history that discredited the oral traditions. Elster clearly believes that he has discredited the loose interpretation. My view is that neither database should be completely discredited. We interpret this to mean that authoritarian regimes have been widely discredited across the continent. 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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