网站首页  词典首页

请输入您要查询的词汇:

 

词汇 disservice
释义 disservice
noun[ S ]
uk /ˌdɪsˈsɜː.vɪs/ us /ˌdɪsˈsɝː.vɪs/
an action that harms something or someone: 有害行为;损害,危害
do a disservice toShe has done a great disservice to her cause by suggesting that violence is justifiable.她因暗示暴力的合理性,从而使她的事业蒙受了巨大的损失。
Opposite
service
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Damaging and spoiling
adulterant
adulterate
adulterated
adulteration
applecart
butcher
dry rot
eat
eat away at something
erode
flaw
foul
queer
rain on someone's paradeidiom
rampage
ravage
ravages
seismic
sour
wreck

disservice | American Dictionary


disservice
noun[ U ]
us/dɪsˈsɜr·vɪs/
an unfair or harmful action:
Calling him a liar does him a great disservice.

Examples of disservice


disservice
This is an unfortunate disservice to his obvious archival expertise and impressive compilation of evidence.
Do we do a great artist more of a disservice by admitting his personal faults, or by denying them?
Linguists do a great disservice to literature when they approach the study of written texts from strictly a social science perspective.
Further, if students graduate without the ability to be articulate about their own work, their education has done them a disservice.
In doing so, the authors do themselves and their project a disservice.
The language of ' last resort ' does older people and providers a disservice.
If we had stereotyped their beliefs, we would have done them a disservice and constructed a difference that might not have existed.
I feel that the publishers have done the author a disservice, as its thesis-like form detracts from its otherwise excellent content.
A journal which seeks to pursue and legitimate a narrow definition of the field will do a disservice to architecture and its research community.
No evident disservice had been done to the subject-matter.
Unfortunately all this results in a review that does a disservice to everyone, the reviewer included.
Worse yet, why use it to do a disservice to people whose suffering renders them so vulnerable?
It is really a disservice to those people who have extended their skills.
A great disservice will be done to studies in indigenization if cognizance is not taken of those structures widely used by the masses, whether educated or not.
I thought that it would do the book a disservice in the long run by appearing too quirky, and instead aimed for a balance of hard fact and inspiring images.
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.
随便看

 

反思网英语在线翻译词典收录了377474条英语词汇在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2005-2024 fscai.com All Rights Reserved 更新时间:2024/12/23 3:04:03