- 1
"Scorn" is a strong feeling of looking down on someone or something, feeling it isn't worth respect at all — stronger than just disliking something. As a noun: "she looked at him with scorn." As a verb, "to scorn" something means to reject it while clearly showing you think it isn't good enough: "he scorned their offer of help." It's a fairly formal, serious word, more common in writing than casual speech.
輕蔑、鄙視
組成No clean split; from Old French "escarn."
同家族的字
- scornfulscornful is the adjective form, describing someone showing scorn
原始詞典資料7 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。
scornverb/skɔːn/
- 1
To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
- The Cry is ſtill, they come: our Caſtles ſtrength / Will laugh a Siedge to ſcorne
- We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful.
- 2
To reject, turn down with disdain.
- He scorned her romantic advances.
- Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman ſcorn'd.
- 3
To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
- She scorned to show weakness.
- 4
To scoff, to express contempt.
- For miſerie doth braueſt mindes abate, / And make them ſeeke for that they wont to ſcorne, / Of fortune and of hope at once forlorne.
scornnoun/skɔːn/
- 1
Contempt or disdain.
- Rain of tears, real, mist of imagined scorn
- 2
A display of disdain; a slight.
- VVith ſcoffes and ſcornes, and contumelious taunts, / In open Market-place produc't they me, / To be a publique ſpectacle to all: / Here, ſayd they, is the Terror of the French, / The Scar-Crovv that affrights our Children ſo.
- Every sullen frown and bitter scorn / But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn.
- 3
An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.
- Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
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。