喜樂美語
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    If you deign to do something, you do it even though you feel it is below you — as if you are really too important for it. It almost always sounds proud, cold, or teasing, not kind. “He finally deigned to reply” means he answered, but late, and as a favour. You deign to do something (deign to look, deign to speak). People also use it as a joke about themselves: “I might deign to wash the dishes.” It is a rather word; many speakers never say it, but they meet it in stories and in sarcastic comments. Younger speakers may only know it from that slightly funny, raised-eyebrow tone. It does not mean you are being generous. The feeling is “I am coming down to your level.”

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組成From Middle English deinen / deynen, from Old French daigner (modern French daigner), from Latin dignāre “to deem worthy,” from dignus “worthy.”

同家族的字

  • dignitysame Latin dignus, “worthy”
  • dignifysame Latin dignus
  • indignantsame Latin dignus; angry because something is not worthy or not fair

原始詞典資料4 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。

deignverb/deɪn/

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    To consider it appropriate or worthy to do or give (something), often when it is seen as beneath one's dignity; to condescend, to vouchsafe.

    • Nor vvould vve deigne him buriall of his men, / Till he diſburſed, at Saint Colmes ynch, / Ten thouſand Dollars, to our generall vſe.
    • [T]hough this my vvorke, ovvne not vvorth enough to deſerve your patronage, yet ſuch is your benigne humanity, that I am confident you vvill daigne it your protection, under vvhich it vvillingly ſhrovvdes it ſelfe.
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    obsoleteTo consider it appropriate or worthy to accept or take (something).

    • Shee deignes not my good will, but doth reprove / And of my rurall muſick holdeth ſcorne.
    • Go, go, be gone, to ſaue your Ship from vvrack, / VVhich cannot periſh hauing thee aboarde, / Being deſtin’d to a drier death on ſhore: / I muſt goe ſend ſome better Meſſenger, / I fear my Iulia vvould not daigne my lines, / Receiuing them from ſuch a vvorthleſſe poſt.
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    obsoleteOften followed by of: to consider (someone) as worthy of something; to dignify.

    • VVill you not daigne his Majeſty vvith an Anſvver?
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    To consider it appropriate or worthy to do something, often when it is seen as beneath one's dignity; to condescend, to think fit, to vouchsafe.

    • He didn’t even deign to give us a nod of the head; he thought us that far beneath him.
    • For Edvvard vvill defeind the Tovvne, and thee, / And all thoſe friends, that deine to follovv mee.

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。