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To deride someone or something is to make remarks or jokes that show you think they are silly or useless — not a warm joke with a friend, but a putting-down. You can deride a plan, an idea, a fashion, or a person. The word is a little formal; in everyday talk people are more likely to say make fun of, laugh at, or mock. Writers, speakers, and news comments like deride because it is sharp and cold. It often takes as: they derided the idea as childish. Teasing can still be fond; deriding is not. You are showing you do not take the thing seriously, and you want other people to see that too.
嘲弄、嘲笑
組成From Latin dērīdēre, 'to laugh at'. The front piece dē- here is the 'putting someone down' kind of de-; the rest is rīdēre, 'to laugh'. English borrowed the whole verb as a school-and-writing word, rather than building it from English laugh.
原始詞典資料2 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。
derideverb/dɪˈɹaɪd/
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To laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly; to ridicule, to scorn.
- Cicero beeing Augur, derideth the Auguries, and blames men for letting their actions relie vpon the voyce of a Crovve or a Davve.
- And the people ſtood beholding ⁊ the rulers alſo with them derided him [Jesus], ſaying, hee ſaued others, let him ſaue himſelfe, if he be Chriſt, yͤ choſen of God.
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obsoleteTo laugh in a harshly mocking manner.
- Memorandum that about the year 1650 coffee and chocolate began to be frequently drunk in Oxon: and about 1655 a club was erected at Tilliard's where many pretended witts would meet and deride at others.
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。