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Detractor Person 英 Dɪ'Træktə(R)] 美 Dɪ'Træktər N.贬低者 Preface Pours

英语单词 detractor
英美音标 英 [dɪ'træktə(r)] 美 [dɪ'træktər]
中文释义 n.贬低者
英语例句 (1) In her preface she pours out vials of wrath on her detractors.
(2) The scheme is better than its detractors suggest.
中文例句 (1) 在序言里她对她的诽谤者表示愤慨。
(2) 这计划比贬低它的人所说的要好。
vocabulary简明 A detractor is someone who puts you down. When you're proposing ideas at work, your detractor is the person who finds fault with everything you say.
vocabulary扩展 Use the noun detractor for someone who is always critical. You might describe your brother as a detractor of the government if he complains incessantly about taxes, voting, the President, and all the members of Congress. If a person takes a dislike to you in particular, he is your own personal detractor. The origin of detractor goes back to the Latin word detrahere, "take down, pull down, or disparage."
柯林斯解释
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]诋毁者;贬低者;诽谤者 The detractors of a person or thing are people who criticize that person or thing.
  [usu pl]
  [JOURNALISM 新闻]
  • This performance will silence many of his detractors...

    这一表演将会让很多诋毁他的人闭嘴。

  • The news will have delighted detractors of the scheme.

    这条消息会让该方案的批评者感到高兴。

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