- 1詆毀、汙衊、抹黑
To vilify someone is to say or write bad things about them in public, over and over, to destroy how other people see them. It is much stronger than criticise. Criticising points at what someone did; vilifying attacks who they are, and usually — when a speaker says 'he has been vilified', they mean the attack went too far. It is a formal, written word: news reports, essays, court cases, speeches. In ordinary Taiwanese-student English you would more likely say 'people said terrible things about him'. The pattern is almost always passive — 'she was vilified in the media', 'vilified as a traitor' — because the interesting part is who was attacked, not who did the attacking. Spelling to note: vilify, vilified, vilifying, and it has ONE l.
組成From Late Latin vīlificāre, made of vīlis 'cheap, worthless' + -ficāre 'to make'. So: to make someone seem worthless. In English terms, vile + -ify.
同家族的字
- vilethe same Latin vīlis 'cheap, worthless' — vilify means to make someone look vile
- vilificationthe noun: the act of vilifying
原始詞典資料2 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。
vilifyverb/ˈvɪl.ɪ.faɪ/
- 1
To say defamatory things about someone or something; to speak ill of.
- 2
To belittle through speech; to put down.
- As one of the largest producers of genetically modified (GM) seeds in the country, Monsanto has been vilified by activists who describe GM products as 'frankenfood.'
- "Those who deliberately vilify China and sabotage the friendship between our two countries and do damage to our long-term friendship and benefits out of their sectoral or selfish interest will be cast aside in history,” he said. “Their children will be ashamed of mentioning their names."
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