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Sneer Blush Smugness Pain Smile Pleasure Middle Sniə

单词 sneer
音标 [sniə]
解释 v.嘲笑,鄙视
红宝书 【英】 v.嘲笑,鄙视(expres s scorn or contempt)
【考】 discomfited : blush / contemptuous : sneer(脸红表示狼狈/讥笑 表示蔑视)smirk : smugness / sneer : dersion(假笑表示自喜/讥笑 表示嘲讽)wince : pain / smile : pleasure / sneer : contempt(因痛苦而退缩/因快 乐而微笑/因蔑视而讥 笑)
【例】 sneer at a girl's cheap clothes
字源 sneer (v.)
1550s, "to snort" (of horses), perhaps from North Frisian sneere "to scorn," related to Old English fnæran "to snort, gnash one's teeth," of imitative origin (compare Danish snærre "to grin like a dog," Middle Dutch, Middle High German snarren "to rattle"). Meaning "to smile contemptuously" is from 1670s; sense of "to curl the upper lip in scorn" is attested from 1775. Related: Sneered; sneering. Sneer word is in E. Digby Baltzell (1987).
sneer (n.)
1707, from sneer (v.).
不择手段背单词 v. 嘲笑(一种表示蔑视的面部表情)
【记】sneak做事的人值得sneer.
【类】discomfited: blush = contemptuous: sneer脸红表示狼狈的 = 讥笑表示蔑视的smirk: smugness = sneer: derision自鸣得意的笑表示沾沾自喜 = 讥笑表示嘲讽wince: pain = smile: pleasure = sneer: contempt = pout: displeasure因痛苦退缩 = 因快乐微笑 = 因蔑视讥笑 = 因不愉快撅嘴
趣味全助记 【记】音:撕你耳,用手撕你的耳朵嘲笑;pioneer 先驱易于嘲笑后来者;ee象一双眼睛
【相关】jeer 嘲弄, 揶揄,fleer 讥笑,嘲笑

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