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    To disbelieve is to not accept that something is true, or that someone is telling the truth. You can disbelieve a story, a report, or a person. It is stronger than doubt: doubt says ‘I’m not sure’; disbelieve says ‘I think this is not true.’ Though actually, daily English prefers I don’t believe it / I don’t believe you. Disbelieve sounds a little stiffer — more at home in news, essays, and careful speech (‘Many people disbelieved the official account’). It is not rude by itself, but it is blunt: you are rejecting the claim, not just pausing over it.

    不相信;不採信

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組成Coined around 1640 from dis- (‘not / the opposite’) + believe.

同家族的字

  • believethe base verb; dis- turns it to the opposite
  • beliefthe noun for the ‘yes’ side
  • disbeliefthe noun for the feeling of not believing

原始詞典資料3 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。

disbelieveverb/dɪsbɪˈliːv/

  • 1

    To not believe; to exercise disbelief.

    • If you disbelieve such people, then keep disbelieving them for as long as you live or want.
    • And the Lisbonites did not more disbelieve in, and dream less of their coming ruin, than Cecil did his, […]
  • 2

    To actively deny (a statement, opinion or perception).

    • He chose to disbelieve the bad news as inconceivable.
  • 3

    To cease to believe.

    • And so far as this opinion prevails, we have reason to fear that the important doctrine, of the real Divinity and even of the humanity of Christ, will be gradually disbelieved.
    • Elfrida walked slowly upstairs, reviewing what had happened and not happened in the last three, not to say six weeks, and gradually disbelieving the good case that she had made out.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。