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Disrepute is the state of having lost people’s admiration or trust. You almost always meet it in set patterns: fall into disrepute, bring something into disrepute (a school, a profession, a law). The thing that falls is often an idea, a method, or an institution, not only a person. It is a formal noun; in everyday English people say a bad name or nobody trusts it any more. Though actually, disrepute is about standing in other people’s eyes — the public story — more than about one private grudge.
聲名狼藉、名譽掃地（多說「陷入～／使陷入～」）
組成dis- (the opposite of) + repute (the name or standing people give you).
同家族的字
- reputethe standing itself
- reputationeveryday noun for that standing
- reputablehaving a good name
- disreputablethe adjective: judged as having a bad name
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。
disreputenoun/dɪsɹɪˈpjuːt/
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Loss or want of reputation; ill character.
- Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get; what you get is classical alpha-taxonomy which is, very largely and for sound reasons, in disrepute today.
- The belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century; it began to waver and become doubtful towards the close of that period, and in the beginning of the eighteenth the art fell into general disrepute, and even under general ridicule.
disreputeverb/dɪsɹɪˈpjuːt/
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To bring into disrepute; to hold in dishonor.
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。