词汇精选：scorn的用法和辨析

一、详细释义：

n.

轻蔑；藐视 [U]

例句：

The ancient scorn of the vestals for the ambubajae is one of the most profound instincts of feminine dignity.

贞女对荡妇的那种自古已然的蔑视，是妇德中一种最悠久的本能。

例句：

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

沉默是藐视最完美的表达方式。

嘲笑；奚落；笑柄 [U]

例句：

He is a target for scorn.

他是嘲笑的目标。

例句：

But his conciliatory talk was met with scorn by many Zelaya supporters, including this man.

但是，米切莱蒂这一和解姿态受到很多塞拉亚支持者的嘲笑。

藐视（或嘲笑）的对象

v.

（表示）轻蔑，藐视 [I,T]

例句：

He used to heap scorn on Dr Vazquez's socialist ideas.

他以前总是嘲笑巴斯克斯博士的社会主义观点。

例句：

They have learnt to scorn difficulties.

他们学会了藐视困难。

拒绝；不屑做 [T]

例句：

How would they scorn to do what you have done.

他们不屑于做你做的事。

例句：

He scorned my help.

他不屑接受我的帮助。

嘲笑 [I]

例句：

Here, there are no bankers of failed institutions to scorn.

在这里，没有破产金融机构的银行家可以嘲笑。

例句：

I've taught him to scorn everything extra-animal as silly and weak.

我教他嘲笑一切兽性以外的东西，认为这些是愚蠢和软弱的。

二、词义辨析：

despise,scorn,look down upon

这些动词或短语动词均表示“轻视，蔑视”之意。despise指由于卑鄙、软弱，渺小或无价值等而被轻视。scorn语气较强，指极端的蔑视，常伴有愤怒或恼怒的情感。 look down upon指自视地位优越而蔑视他人或事。

三、参考例句：

They have learnt to scorn difficulties.

他们学会了藐视困难。

The artist looked at her with scorn.

艺术家以蔑视的眼光看着她。

He eyed me with a terrible scorn.

他极其轻蔑地打量着我。

Will there be scorn and division

将来还会被嘲笑、还会有分歧吗？

You've no right to scorn a poor girl.

你没有权利看不起一个可怜的女孩。

Sequins have often aroused the scorn of arbiters of taste.

闪光装饰片经常引起时尚引领者的鄙视。

The small weak child became the scorn of the class.

这个瘦小软弱的孩子成为全班嘲笑的对象。

How would they scorn to do what you have done.

他们不屑于做你做的事。

But his conciliatory talk was met with scorn by many Zelaya supporters, including this man.

但是，米切莱蒂这一和解姿态受到很多塞拉亚支持者的嘲笑。

I scorn to be taken by an English craft under French colors.

我决不会被一件上了法国油彩的英国工艺品骗上的。