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When you disabuse someone, you talk them out of a false belief. You do not only say “you are wrong.” You help them see that the thing they were sure of is not true. Though actually, English almost always uses one set shape: disabuse someone of something — of an idea, a notion, a hope. You would not normally say “disabuse someone that…” It is a little formal, a little old-fashioned even, but still alive in careful speech and writing. It is not about “abuse” in the modern sense of hurting someone. You hear it when a person has a sweet but false picture of the world, and someone — kindly or sharply — takes that picture away.
糾正錯誤觀念;使醒悟(常用 disabuse sb of sth)
組成From dis- + abuse. Compare French désabuser. The dis- means “undo / take away.” The abuse piece keeps an older sense of “use,” not the modern “treat badly.” Together: take away a wrong use of the mind — take away a false belief.
同家族的字
- abusethe stem; here it keeps an older sense of “use,” not “treat badly”
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。
disabuseverb/dɪsəˈbjuːz/
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To free (someone) of a misconception or misapprehension; to unveil a falsehood held by (someone).
- I had been too profoundly disabused of life's dearest illusions ever again to allow of their sweet engrossment.
- If we had any hopes or illusions about the National Party before they came into office, we were disabused of them quickly.
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。