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To flout a law, a rule, or a custom is to break it on purpose, and not hide that you are doing so. It has the feeling of “I see your rule, and I will not follow it.” People flout speed limits, dress codes, or bans. It is a little formal; in everyday talk someone might say ignore or break instead. In modern English you flout a rule or a law — you do not usually flout a person.
公然違抗（法規、規定）
組成Scholars are not sure. It perhaps comes from Middle English flouten, “to play the flute,” and there is a similar Dutch word fluiten; the idea may have been to whistle at someone, which then became “to mock,” and later “to treat a rule as nothing.” That path is only a perhaps.
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。
floutverb/flaʊt/
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To express contempt for (laws, rules, etc.) by word or action.
- The manoeuvres of Microsoft and HP appear to comply with the letter of the regulations, even if they flout their spirit.
- Of necessity[…] the duty to comply with the rules designed to spare civilians as much as possible the hazards of war is absolute, not contingent on the behavior of opponents. The Israeli government already seems to be flouting those rules.
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archaicTo scorn.
- Yet all ' s not worth a pin, But could not get her; Phillida flouts me. Dick had her to the Vine
- Three gaudy standards flout the pale blue sky.
floutnoun/flaʊt/
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The act by which something is flouted; violation of a law.
- A flout is when someone deliberately and ostentatiously contravenes a maxim.
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A mockery or insult.
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。