epithets

英 [ˈɛpɪθɛts]

美 [ˈɛpəˌθɛts]

n.  (尤用于褒贬人或事物特征或性质的)表述形容词，修饰语; 别称; 绰号; 诨名
epithet的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 表述形容词，修饰语（用以批评或称赞某人）
  Anepithetis an adjective or short phrase which is used as a way of criticizing or praising someone.
  1. ...the religious issue which led to the epithet 'bible-basher'.
     导致出现“《圣经》的狂热宣讲者”这一称谓的宗教问题

双语例句

• Then President Dwight Eisenhower federalized the troops to protect the students, and they went to school through angry mobs shouting racist epithets.
  接着，德怀特。艾森豪威尔下令调动联邦军队来保护学生。学校被咒骂有色人种的人群围住，部队好不容易才穿过人群。
• In Hallidayan tradition, interpersonal function is mainly realized by mood system, modality system, attitudinal epithets, comment adjuncts, vocatives etc.
  他提出人际功能主要是由语气和情态系统实现的。
• Strong, vulgar language; obscene gestures. Use of epithets.
  蛮横、粗俗的语言；猥亵的手势。使用带侮辱性的称谓。
• Voices called "scab" now and then, as well as other epithets, but no crowd attacked the car.
  不时地有声音叫着“工贼”，还听到其它的辱骂声，但是没有人群袭击电车。
• A court is not bound to credit bald assertions, unsupportable conclusions, and opprobrious epithets woven into the fabric of the complaint.
  法庭不必采信由枯燥的断言，没有根据的结论和无理的绰号所编织的诉求。
• Empathy is the emotional result of harmonious unity of the subject and object, and its aesthetic effect is usually realized by transferred epithets.
  移情是主体和客体和谐统一的感情产物，其美学效果在语言表达上往往通过移就（英语称转移修饰）辞格体现出来。
• He insulted me, using rude epithets.
  他用粗话诅咒我。
• Epithets like this helped to turn the benighted region of Darfur from an unknown backwater to the most pressing issue on every Western politician's to-solve list.
  不过，这种说法也促使达富尔这片陷入黑暗的土地从不为人知变成了西方政治家们案头最亟待解决的问题。
• In a tone that made the word the foulest and most venomous of epithets.
  用的那声调更使这个字显得又脏又毒了。
• Though he denies racist intentions in the incident, Wahlberg had been censured in the past for using racial epithets at school.
  虽然他否认这件事与种族歧视有关，他还是因在学校时使用污辱种族的称谓而备受指责。