disdain

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++dis·dain1 /dɪsˈdeɪn/ noun [uncountable] formal  REJECT/NOT ACCEPTa complete lack of respect that you show for someone or something because you think they are not important or good enough 鄙视，轻视，藐视with disdain She watched me with disdain. 她鄙视地看着我。 a look of complete disdain 极为鄙视的样子disdain for his disdain for capitalism 他对资本主义的蔑视

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disdain• Communist disdain for the environment made matters worse.• The most obvious: His expressed concern for the environment and his disdain for technology.• Now the carbon-dioxide snow gleamed white beneath the icy disdain of the stars.• They remained aloof from the front row out of disdain and from the back row out of a sense of responsibility.• Predictably, the international media circus, with its Olympian disdain for the parochial, has long since moved on.• The Shah had sometimes shown disdain for many such people.• His father noticed them too but regarded them with disdain.disdain for• They expressed disdain for Western pop culture.disdain2 verb formal  1  [transitive]REJECT/NOT ACCEPT to have no respect for someone or something, because you think they are not important or good enough 鄙视，轻视，藐视 Childcare was seen as women’s work, and men disdained it. 照看儿童被视为女人做的工作，男人对此很不屑。2  disdain to do something formal REFUSEto refuse to do something because you are too proud to do it 不屑于做某事 Butler disdained to reply. 巴特勒不屑回答。→ See Verb table

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disdain• But such simple fare he knew full well would be disdained.• I could see her proudly carrying on her head an amphora to a well and disdaining all admirers.• From boyhood he disdained an easy life.• He disdains New York and the art that is produced there.• In fact, Roy disdains the cowardice of anyone who plays the easier shot.• Along with his peers on the Board, Stark disdained them.• I disdained to consult a medical dictionary, however.• Even the casual Aranyos did not disdain to make the sign.• Throughout the Mekong delta, local officials who disdained Tu Duc nevertheless quit the provincial administration rather than submit to alien rule.Origin disdain2 (1300-1400) Old French desdeignier, from deignier; → DEIGN

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disdain

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dis‧dain¹ /dɪsˈdeɪn/ noun [uncountable] formal
a complete lack of respect that you show for someone or something because you think they are not important or good enough
    with disdain
    She watched me with disdain.
    a look of complete disdain
    disdain for
    his disdain for capitalism

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disdain² verb formal1. [transitive] to have no respect for someone or something, because you think they are not important or good enough:
    Childcare was seen as women’s work, and men disdained it.
2. disdain to do something to refuse to do something because you are too proud to do it:
    Butler disdained to reply.