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

• As an armyman, I spurn fearlessly at all danger and the enemy.
  作为一名军人，一切危险和敌人全不在我的眼下。
• I will answer for it, that mine thinks herself full as clever, and would spurn any body's assistance. '
  我敢担保，我的管家也认为自己非常机灵，不会要别人帮忙。
• We spurn firmly the shade building style, the rejection shade building vulgar interest, uncovers the shade building assembly line the hard wound, do not have again to do clones the bride.
  我们坚决唾弃影楼风格，摒弃影楼低级趣味，揭影楼流水线的硬伤，不要再做克隆新娘。
• It also points out, to acquire the essence of calligraph, calligraphists should spurn the utilitarianism, emphasize the inner self-experience.
  指出当代书法家必须摒弃创作功利意识，着重自我内在体验的感悟，才能获取书法艺术真谛。
• 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。
• Buddhists are encouraged to demonstrate a reverence for all sentient beings; some believers spurn meat while others buy animals destined for slaughter and then set them free.
  佛教鼓励信徒敬畏众生；一些信徒拒绝吃肉，其他人则买下将要被屠宰的动物，然后放生。
• One is that the syndicates will spurn smaller deals because of the cost of the paperwork.
  一是，由于案头成本的问题，这些联合组织将摒弃小的投资项目。
• They spurn all our offers of help.
  他们拒绝接受我们提出的一切援助。
• Obama's efforts at conciliation, our adversaries Iran, North Korea, Hamas, among others may spurn America's outstretched hand, or meet it with a mailed fist.
  尽管奥巴马致力于调节，但是我们的敌对者诸如伊朗、朝鲜、哈马斯可能拒绝美国所伸出的调停之手，或者一开始就拒绝通信会谈。
• 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。