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Libel Written Statement Sense Person's Laibəl V./N.(文字)诽谤,中伤 英

单词 libel
音标 ['laibəl]
解释 v./n.(文字)诽谤,中伤
红宝书 【英】 (文字)诽谤,中伤(any false and malicious written or printed statement, or any sign, picture, or effigy, tending to expose a person to public ridicule, hatred, or contempt or to injure a person's reputation in any way)
【记】 lib(文字)+el→(用文 字)诽谤;注意:slan der(口头诽谤);请不 要和label(标签)相混
【例】 The newspaper editors are careful not to libel anyone.
字源 libel (n.)
c.1300, "formal written statement," especially, in civil law, "plaintiff's statement of charges" (mid-14c.); from Old French libelle (fem.) "small book; (legal) charge, claim; writ; written report" (13c.), from Latin libellus "a little book, pamphlet; petition, written accusation, complaint," diminutive of liber "book" (see library). Broader sense of "any published or written statement likely to harm a person's reputation" is first attested 1630s.
libel (v.)
mid-15c., "make an initial statement setting out a plaintiff's case" (modern sense from 1560s), from libel (n.), q.v. for sense development. Related: Libeled; libelled; libeling; libelling.
不择手段背单词 v. /n. (用图画或文字)诽谤, 中伤
【记】lib = lip, bel = bell: 嘴象铃铛一样的诽谤.
【根】lib文字一(用文字)诽谤
【参】slander(n /v 诽谤); label(n 标签); libellous(adj 损害名誉的)
趣味全助记 【记】lip嘴唇 + 音:谤;label 贴个坏人的标签,文革时的批判手法是给对方贴上个标签,然后扣帽子诽谤

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