- 1唾棄、斷然拒絕（帶輕蔑或高傲意味）
To reject something or someone firmly, and often — to push away an offer, a gift, help, or a person's love. What makes 'spurn' different from plain 'refuse' is the feeling behind it: you are not just saying no, you are saying no as if the thing were beneath you. Pride, scorn or hurt is usually in there. It is a formal and rather literary word; in ordinary speech you would say 'turned it down' or 'rejected it'. Very common in love stories — 'a spurned lover' is someone whose love was rejected, and the phrase implies they are now bitter about it. Also common with 'advances', 'offer', 'help', 'invitation'.
組成From Old English 'spurnan', meaning to strike against or kick. The old physical picture — kicking something away with your foot — is still under the modern meaning.
同家族的字
- spurrelated through the same root about the foot and heel
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
spurnverb/spɜːn/
- 1
To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
- to spurn at your most royal image
- What safe and nicely I might well delay By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn.
- 2
To reject something by pushing it away with the foot.
- Me thinks I ſee kings kneeling at his feet, And he with frowning browes and fiery lookes, Spurning their crownes from off their captiue heads.
- I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.
- 3
To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity)
- Marouane Chamakh then spurned a great chance to kill the game off when he ran onto Andrey Arshavin's lofted through ball but shanked his shot horribly across the face of goal.
- 4
obsoleteTo kick or toss up the heels.
- oft' the ſudden Gale Ruffles the Tide, and ſhifts the dang'rous Sail, […] The drunken Chairman in the Kennel ſpurns, The Glaſſes ſhatters, and his Charge o'erturns.
spurnnoun/spɜːn/
- 1
An act of spurning; a scornful rejection.
- 2
archaicA kick; a blow with the foot.
- What defence can properly be used in such a despicable encounter as this but either the slap or the spurn?
- 3
obsoleteDisdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
- The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes.
- 4
businessminingA body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。