disdainful

英 [dɪsˈdeɪnfl]

美 [dɪsˈdeɪnfl]

adj.  轻视的; 鄙视的; 倨傲的

BNC.21234 / COCA.22437

牛津词典

adj.

• 轻视的；鄙视的；倨傲的
  showing disdain
  1. She's always been disdainful of people who haven't been to college.
     她总是瞧不起那些未念过大学的人。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 轻蔑的;鄙视的
  To bedisdainfulmeans to dislike something or someone because you think they are unimportant or not worth your attention.
  1. He is highly disdainful of anything to do with the literary establishment...
     他对任何与文学界权威沾边的事都嗤之以鼻。
  2. Edgar cast a disdainful look at his twin.
     埃德加朝他的双胞胎兄弟投去鄙夷的目光。

双语例句

• These book sales are an astonishing development for a country once disdainful of contemporary foreign authors.
  对于一个曾经鄙视当代外国作家的国家来说，销售这些书是它惊人的进展。
• Even cosmopolitan liberals are unabashedly disdainful of their southern neighbours.
  甚至蒙古世界性的自由主义者也公然蔑视他们的南邻。
• She made a point of giving a disdainful look to every soldier she met, and crossed to the other side of the street in as insulting a manner as possible, though, she said, this was quite inconvenient in wet weather.
  她特别注意每次碰到大兵都要给他蔑神的脸色，并且走到街道的另一边去，以此来表示最大的蔑视，尽管这样做在雨天是很不方便的。
• She had an affected air and a disdainful look.
  她举止做作，神情倨傲。
• But while he loves to play, he is disdainful of a life lived purely to accumulate more chips.
  但是，虽然他好玩，却不屑于过着纯粹累积筹码的生活。
• Farmers are often disdainful of local officials they see as members of a parasite elite that siphon off funds meant for villagers and take their farmland for too little compensation.
  农民经常鄙视当地官员，认为这些人是掌权的寄生虫，抽走原本要给农村的资金，导致他们的农田获得的补偿太少。
• She let them be kindly and disdainful, she let them feel they had no need to draw their steel in readiness.
  她接受他们的和蔼和轻蔑，她让他们知道用不着剑拨弩张。
• He's disdainful of anyone from america.
  美洲来的人他都瞧不起。
• The residents of the hive tend to be young and male, and disdainful of the traditional startup route: build, sell, repeat.
  “蜂房”的居住者通常比较年轻，一般都是男性，鄙视传统的初创企业发展路线&创办企业，出售，循环往复。
• Had a roar of laughter burst from the multitude-each man, each woman, each little shrill-voiced child, contributing their individual parts-Hester Prynne might have repaid them all with a bitter and disdainful smile.
  如果从构成这一群人中的每一个男人、每一个女人和每一个尖嗓门的孩子的口中爆发出轰笑，海丝特白兰或许可以对他们所有的人报以倔傲的冷笑。