a strong feeling that somebody/something is stupid or not good enough, usually shown by the way you speak 輕蔑；鄙視 Her fellow teachers greeted her proposal with scorn. 别的老師對她的提議不屑一顧。 She was unable to hide the scorn in her voice. 她的聲音中有掩飾不住的輕蔑。 - scorn for somebody/something
They had nothing but scorn for his political views. 他們對他的政治觀點只有鄙夷。
Extra ExamplesTopics Opinion and argumentc2He has suffered public scorn and humiliation. 他在大庭廣衆之下遭到了蔑視和羞辱。 He reserved particular scorn for the director. 他對那位主任尤爲不屑。 He stared with scorn at his interviewers. 他有些輕蔑地盯着面試官們。 His poetry was the object of scorn. 他的詩歌成了人們嘲笑的對象。 She expressed her scorn for the rules. 她表達了對那些規定的蔑視。 She reserved her most withering scorn for journalists. 她最瞧不起的就是記者了。 What have I done to deserve such scorn? 我做了什麽讓你這麽瞧不起？ Young people may risk the scorn of their peers if they join such a club. 如果年輕人加入這樣的俱樂部，他們可能會受到同齡人的嘲笑。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- withering
- public
- heap
- pour
- reserve
- …
- with scorn
- scorn for
- an object of scorn
Word OriginMiddle English: shortening of Old French escarn (noun), escharnir (verb), of Germanic origin.
Idioms
pour/heap scorn on somebody/something
to speak about somebody/something in a way that shows that you do not respect them or have a good opinion of them 嗤之以鼻；不屑一顧 Opposition politicians poured scorn on the proposals. 反對派政界人士對這些提議嗤之以鼻。