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To show, with facts or good reasons, that something someone said is wrong or not true. People use this word when they are arguing against a claim, an accusation, or an idea — for example, a scientist refuting a theory, or someone refuting an accusation made against them. It is a fairly formal word; you see it a lot in news, debates, and academic writing, less in casual chat.
反駁、駁斥
組成re- (back, against) + a Latin word that probably meant to beat down or drive back
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。
refuteverb/ɹɪˈfjuːt/
- 1
To prove (something) to be false or incorrect.
- After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, "I refute it thus."
- 2
To deny the truth or correctness of (something); to reject or disagree with an accusation.
- A spokesperson for VARS Technology said: “We completely refute the suggestion that our market-leading ANPR system is unreliable".
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。