scorn英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

Contempt or disdain. uncountable

— Rain of tears, real, mist of imagined scorn
A display of disdain; a slight. countable

— VVith ſcoffes and ſcornes, and contumelious taunts, / In open Market-place produc't they me, / To be a publique ſpectacle to all: / Here, ſayd they, is the Terror of the French, / The Scar-Crovv that affrights our Children ſo.
An object of disdain, contempt, or derision. countable

— Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

动词 v.

To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise. transitive

— The Cry is ſtill, they come: our Caſtles ſtrength / Will laugh a Siedge to ſcorne
To reject, turn down with disdain. transitive

— He scorned her romantic advances.
To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself. transitive

— She scorned to show weakness.
To scoff, to express contempt. intransitive

— For miſerie doth braueſt mindes abate, / And make them ſeeke for that they wont to ſcorne, / Of fortune and of hope at once forlorne.

词形变化

scorns present,singular,third-person scorning participle,present scorned participle,past scorned past scorns plural

词汇关系

衍生词

laugh to scorn scornful

词源

词源 1

Verb from Middle English scornen, schornen, alteration of Old French escharnir, from Vulgar Latin *escarnire, from Proto-West Germanic *skarnijan, possibly from Proto-Germanic *skeraną (“to shear”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”)), or possibly related to *skarną (“dung, filth”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱerd-, *(s)ḱer- (“dung, manure, filth”)). Noun from Old French escarn (cognate with Portuguese escárnio, Spanish escarnio and Italian scherno). Cognate with Middle High German schern (“joke, mockery, scorn”), Old English sċierniċġe (“female entertainer, juggler, actress”).

词源 2

Verb from Middle English scornen, schornen, alteration of Old French escharnir, from Vulgar Latin *escarnire, from Proto-West Germanic *skarnijan, possibly from Proto-Germanic *skeraną (“to shear”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”)), or possibly related to *skarną (“dung, filth”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱerd-, *(s)ḱer- (“dung, manure, filth”)). Noun from Old French escarn (cognate with Portuguese escárnio, Spanish escarnio and Italian scherno). Cognate with Middle High German schern (“joke, mockery, scorn”), Old English sċierniċġe (“female entertainer, juggler, actress”).