scoff


n. 嘲笑;愚弄;笑柄

vt. 嘲笑;嘲弄;贪婪地吃

vi. 嘲笑;嘲弄;狼吞虎咽

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中文词源

scoff 嘲笑,嘲弄

来自古诺斯语 skop,嘲笑,嘲讽,同古英语 scop,游吟诗人,来自 Proto-Germanic*skapiz,形成, 创作,来自 PIE*skep,砍,切,削,词源同 shape.

英文词源

scoff (v.)
mid-14c., "jest, make light of something;" mid-15c., "make fun of, mock," from the noun meaning "contemptuous ridicule" (c. 1300), from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse skaup, skop "mockery, ridicule," Middle Danish skof "jest, mockery;" perhaps from Proto-Germanic *skub-, *skuf- (cognates: Old English scop "poet," Old High German scoph "fiction, sport, jest, derision"), from PIE *skeubh- "to shove" (see shove (v.)).

中文解释

1. 谐音“是夸父”------夸父逐日,不自量力,被嘲笑。2. 夸父逐日,不自量力,最后被活活的渴死,当然会被嘲笑了。3. scofflaw => scoff.

实用例句

1. You may scoff but I honestly feel I'm being cruel only to be kind.
你可能不以为然,但我真的认为我狠下心来只是出于一片好意。
来自柯林斯例句
2. You are not supposed to scoff at religion .
你不该嘲弄宗教。
来自辞典例句
3. Citizens of other cities may scoff at Melbourne's brown river.
其他城市的居民或许会嘲笑墨尔本的褐色泥浆河.
来自百科语句
4. I was no more to her than a morsel of scoff in the fuel - house.
我在她的眼里还不如柴房里的一小堆木屑.
来自辞典例句
5. There was purpose and feeling, banter and scoff playing, mingled , on her mobile lineaments.
在她那变幻无常的外貌上,既有决心,又有感情,既有嘲弄, 又有戏虐和开玩笑的神色.
来自辞典例句

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