| 英语单词 | detractor |
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| 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 | 1 [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]
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