n. mockery,jeer,taunt嘲弄,嘲笑,奚落。
△R.III.2.4.24:“I could have given my uncle’s Grace aflout/To touch his growth nearer than he touchedmine.”我一定能把我的叔父殿下也嘲弄一番,把他怎么長(zhǎng)大說得比他說我還要更厲害呢。
△L.L.L.5.2.852 (844):“woun-ding flouts,”i.e.bitter jests that hurt.尖刻傷人的嘲笑。
△L.L.L.5.2.270 (269): “kingly-poor flout”,不高明的譏嘲。
flout
vt.
1.mock at,jeer at,ridicule嘲弄,嘲笑,譏笑。
△Com.1.2.91:“wilt thou flout me thus unto my face,”你還敢當(dāng)面對(duì)我嘲弄嗎?
△Shr.2.1.29:“Her silence floutsme”,她悶不作聲,就是嘲弄我。
△Mid.2. 2. 128:“But youmust flout my insufficiency?”你還要來挖苦我的短處嗎?
△Ado.1.1. 298 (288): “ere you flout old ends anyfurther,examine your conscience.”在繼續(xù)嘲笑這舊式的結(jié)尾語之前,請(qǐng)你們反問一下自己的良心吧。
△Mac.1.2. 50(49): “Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky/And fan our people cold.”i.e. Where the Norwegianflags mock the sky,and fan cold fear into our people,那里挪威旗向天空狂揮,把我們的人民扇得膽寒。
△1H.VI.4.1.74: “Let him perceive how ill we brook histreason,/ And what offence it is to flout hisfriends.”讓他明白一下我們對(duì)于他的叛變多么不能容忍,嘲弄他的盟友又是什么樣的罪行。
△R.III.2.1.78: “Why,mad-am,have I offered love for this,/To be so flouted in this royal presence?”怎么,夫人,我剛為這件事表示了友愛,卻當(dāng)著國王的大駕受到這樣的嘲弄嗎?
2. insult侮辱。
△1H.VI.1.3.14: “Shall I be floutedthus by dunghill grooms?”難道我要受這些下賤糞夫的侮辱嗎?
~ vi.
1. mock,jeer嘲弄,譏笑。
△As.1.2. 49 (45):“ThoughNature hath given us wit to flout at Fortune,hath not Fortune sent in this fool to cut off the argument?”雖然自然給予我們智慧嘲笑命運(yùn),命運(yùn)不是打發(fā)這個(gè)傻子來打斷我們的談話了嗎?
2. make sport戲弄。
△As.5.1.13(12):“we shall beflouting,”i. e.we must have our joke.我們必須尋尋開心(又譯:戲弄戲弄人)。
flout[flaut]
v. 藐視,嘲笑,反對(duì)
◇ flout at sb. 嘲笑某人,反對(duì)某人