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,把他怎么长大说得比他说我还要更厉害呢。
△L.L.L.5.2.852 (844):“woun-ding flouts,”i.e.bitter jests that hurt.尖刻伤人的嘲笑。
△L.L.L.5.2.270 (269): “kingly-poor flout”,不高明的讥嘲。
flout
vt.
1.mock at,jeer at,ridicule嘲弄,嘲笑,讥笑。
△Com.1.2.91:“wilt thou flout me thus unto my face,”你还敢当面对我嘲弄吗?
△Shr.2.1.29:“Her silence floutsme”,她闷不作声,就是嘲弄我。
△Mid.2. 2. 128:“But youmust flout my insufficiency?”你还要来挖苦我的短处吗?
△Ado.1.1. 298 (288): “ere you flout old ends anyfurther,examine your conscience.”在继续嘲笑这旧式的结尾语之前,请你们反问一下自己的良心吧。
△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挥,把我们的人民扇得胆寒。
△1H.VI.4.1.74: “Let him perceive how ill we brook histreason,/ And what offence it is to flout hisfriends.”让他明白一下我们对于他的叛变多么不能容忍,嘲弄他的盟友又是什么样的罪行。
△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,我刚为这件事表示了友爱,却当着国王的大驾受到这样的嘲弄吗?
2. insult侮辱。
△1H.VI.1.3.14: “Shall I be floutedthus by dunghill grooms?”难道我要受这些下贱粪夫的侮辱吗?
~ vi.
1. mock,jeer嘲弄,讥笑。
△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?”虽然自然给予我们智慧嘲笑命运,命运不是打发这个傻子来打断我们的谈话了吗?
2. make sport戏弄。
△As.5.1.13(12):“we shall beflouting,”i. e.we must have our joke.我们必须寻寻开心(又译:戏弄戏弄人)。
flout[flaut]
v. 藐视,嘲笑,反对
◇ flout at sb. 嘲笑某人,反对某人