spurn

英 [spɜːn]

美 [spɜːrn]

v.  (尤指傲慢地)拒绝

过去式：spurned　过去分词：spurned　第三人称单数：spurns　现在分词：spurning　

GRE

Collins.1 / BNC.14098 / COCA.15240

牛津词典

verb

• （尤指傲慢地）拒绝
  to reject or refuse sb/sth, especially in a proud way
  1. Eve spurned Mark's invitation.
     伊夫一口回绝了马克的邀请。
  2. a spurned lover
     遭到轻蔑拒绝的痴心爱慕者

柯林斯词典

• VERB 拒绝;摈弃
  If youspurnsomeone or something, you reject them.
  1. He spurned the advice of management consultants...
     他拒绝了管理顾问们的建议。
  2. These gestures have been spurned.
     这些表示都遭到了拒绝。
  3. ...a spurned lover.
     遭到抛弃的情人

英英释义

verb

• reject with contempt
  1. She spurned his advances
  Synonym:rejectfreeze offscornpooh-poohdisdainturn down

双语例句

• And my belief is that you came to steal a pretty girl's heart away, and to ruin it, and to spurn in afterwards.
  我认为，你是要来偷一个漂亮姑娘的心，偷到以后就把它揉碎，然后踹在脚下。
• One of these colleges shall open its doors to me-shall welcome whom now it would spurn.
  那些学院中会有一个向我敞开大门的，虽然它现在踢开了我，终有它欢迎我的一天。
• These mostly spurn orthodox fiscal and monetary instruments and instead just replace one type of crude bureaucratic intervention with another.
  这些举措大多摈弃了传统的财政和货币政策工具，相反，仅仅是以一种生硬的政府干预，代替另一种形式的干预。
• When candidates for the highest office in the land appear to spurn reason, embrace anecdote over scientific evidence, and even portray scientists as the perpetrators of a massive hoax, there is reason to worry, it thundered.
  文章痛斥道：当角逐美国最高职位的竞选者表现出拒绝接受理性、相信轶闻胜于科学证据、甚至将科学家描绘为一场重大骗局的罪魁祸首时，我们有理由感到担忧。
• This is an unparalleled offer that President Bush's administration has made that the Iranians spurn because they seem to be obsessed with the idea of getting nuclear weapons, he said.
  这项布什政府做出的空前的决议可能被伊朗抛弃，因为他们对拥有核武器的想法所困惑。
• Carl had been from his childhood a ball of fortune to spurn at.
  自从童年时起卡尔就一直是一个被命运跑踢来踢去的球，饱经沧桑。
• If I pitied you for crying and looking so very frightened, you should spurn such pity.
  如果我为了你的哭和你这非常害怕的神气来怜悯你，你也应该拒绝这怜悯。
• And kick me as you spurn a stranger cur over your threshold.
  又像对待一个陌生的杂种那样使劲地踢我。
• But many financial giants who need all the capital they can get are in no position to spurn government money.
  但许多金融巨头需要自己能够得到的所有资本，它们还远未达到足以对政府资金嗤之以鼻的地步。
• They spurn all our offers of help.
  他们拒绝接受我们提出的一切援助。