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Sardonic describes a look, a smile, or a remark that shows you think little of someone or something, and that you feel a bit above it. It is not warm teasing. It is dry, sharp, and often a little cruel — the kind of smile that says “how silly you are” without raising the voice. Writers and films love a sardonic smile or a sardonic comment. In casual talk many people would just say sarcastic, but sardonic is colder and more superior. It is a fairly adjective; you will not hear young children use it. The laugh, if there is one, does not invite you in.
譏諷的；帶優越感的冷嘲
組成English took it from French sardonique, from Latin sardonius, from Greek σαρδόνιος / σαρδάνιος, “bitter or scornful laughter.” Writers often trace this to a plant from Sardinia that, if eaten, pulled the face into a look like scorn — and then killed the person. It might instead be tied to a Greek verb meaning “to grin.” Scholars do not all agree. Do not mix this name with Sardis, an old city in what is now Turkey; that is a different root.
同家族的字
- sardonicallythe adverb: in a sardonic way
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。
sardonicadj/sɑːˈdɒnɪk/
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Scornfully mocking or cynical.
- He distances himself from people with his nasty, sardonic laughter.
- [Q]Uivering fears, Heart-tearing cares, / Anxious ſighs, Untimely tears, / Fly, fly to the Courts; / Fly to fond worldings ſports, / Where ſtrain’d Sardonick ſmiles are cloſing ſtill, / And grief is forc’d to laugh againſt her will; / Where mirth’s but mummery, / And ſorrows only real be.
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Disdainfully or ironically humorous.
- Another manifestation, significantly reaching its apogee in the midst of Antonine virtues, was the growing popularity of adoxographical exercises. Mock panegyrics were dashed off, not just by sardonic intellectuals such as Lucian, but also by trained courtiers and polished encomiasts of the stamp of [Marcus Cornelius] Fronto.
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。