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Defamation is the act of hurting someone's name by saying or writing things that are bad and not true, so other people think worse of them. In law it is a heavy word: a person can take you to court for it. It covers both speaking and writing, though some older English splits those into slander (spoken) and libel (written); everyday talk often just says defamation for both. It is not a rude joke among friends, and it is not a true, fair report. The point is harm to reputation. You will hear it in news, in court, and in careful speech — not much in playground talk.
誹謗
組成From Old French diffamacion (French diffamation), from Latin diffāmātiō. By surface analysis, defame + -ation.
同家族的字
- defamethe verb: to do this to someone
- defamatorythe describing word for a statement that does this
- famesame old Latin piece fama, meaning rumour or reputation
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
defamationnoun/ˌdɛfəˈmeɪʃən/
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The act of injuring another person's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another.
- She sued his ex-boyfriend for defamation and is seeking $14,000.
- In a closed trial on December 24, 2004, the People’s Court of Jinshui District in the city of Zhengzhou, Henan Province, convicted Zhang Ruquan, along with his associate Zhang Zhengyao, in a public prosecution on charges of defamation that “seriously undermined social order or the state interest.” The two were sentenced to three years in prison for defaming former Chinese President Jiang Zemin.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。