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To jeer is to laugh at someone, or shout things, in a way that shows you do not respect them. A crowd at a match may jeer a player who has played badly. Schoolchildren may jeer a — that is cruel, not a friendly joke. You can jeer at a person, or jeer a speech, a team, an idea. As a noun, a jeer is one of those shouts or laughs (“a jeer from the crowd”). It is a harsh word. Teasing can be light; jeering is meant to put someone down. It is not a high, formal word, but you will meet it in news about crowds and in stories about groups. The verb is regular: jeered, jeering.
嘲笑；喝倒采（群眾起哄、罵人那種，不是輕鬆開玩笑）
組成It does not split in English. It comes from an older form gyr. That probably came from Dutch gieren, “to roar with laughter,” or from Dutch gekscheren, literally “to shear the fool.” Dictionaries say there is no proven link to English cheer, even though the two words look a little alike.
原始詞典資料5 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。
jeernoun詞源 1/d͡ʒɪə/
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A mocking remark or reflection.
- 1711, Jonathan Swift, The Fable of Midas, in The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol XII, Sir Walter Scott, ed., Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1824, pages 302-5, Midas, exposed to all their jeers, Had lost his art, and kept his ears.
jeerverb詞源 1/d͡ʒɪə/
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To utter sarcastic or mocking comments; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language.
- But when he saw her toy, and gibe, and geare, / And passe the bonds of modest merimake, / Her dalliance he despisd, and follies did forsake.
- At the end of a frantic first 45 minutes, there was still time for Charlie Adam to strike the bar from 20 yards before referee Atkinson departed to a deafening chorus of jeering from Everton's fans.
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archaicTo mock; treat with mockery; to taunt.
- And if we cannot jeer them, we jeer ourselves.
jeernoun詞源 2/d͡ʒɪə/
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nauticaltransportA gear; a tackle.
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nauticaltransportAn assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the yards of a ship.
- In the nineteenth century, 1811 to be exact, the jeers were unrove after the yard was slung, the weight of the yard being borne by chain slings. The jeers used then were a treble block lashed to the mast head through a hole in the center of the top
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。