taunt
verb- taunt somebody
to try to make somebody angry or upset by saying unkind things about them, laughing at their failures, etc. 辱罵;嘲笑;諷刺;奚落 Extra ExamplesTopics Personal qualitiesc2, Educationc2‘Running away?’he taunted softly. “想逃跑嗎?”他略帶嘲諷地問道。 The other children taunted him with nicknames. 其他孩子叫他各種綽號取笑他。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- constantly
- regularly
- repeatedly
- …
- about
- with
Word Originearly 16th cent.: from French tant pour tant ‘like for like, tit for tat’, from tant ‘so much’, from Latin tantum, neuter of tantus. An early use of the verb was ‘exchange banter’.