scoff是一个英语单词,名词、动词,作名词时意为“嘲笑,嘲笑的话;笑料,笑柄;食物,口粮”,作动词时意为“ 嘲笑,嘲弄;贪婪地吃,狼吞虎咽”。
[ 复数 scoffs 第三人称单数 scoffs 现在分词 scoffing 过去式 scoffed 过去分词 scoffed ]
V-I If you scoff at something, you speak about it in a way that shows you think it is ridiculous or inadequate. 嘲笑
At first I scoffed at the notion.
刚开始时我对那种想法嗤之以鼻。
V-T to eat (food) fast and greedily; devour 狼吞虎咽
N an expression of derision 嘲笑
Don't scoff—she's absolutely right.
别嘲笑她—她绝对正确。
The scientific community did not take long to scoff at and abandon von Daniken's theory.
没过多久,科学界就嘲笑并抛弃了冯·丹尼肯的理论。
传统人士可能会嘲笑。
Any right-thinking printer or any right-thinking publisher would scoff at the presumption of a poet who demanded such a thing.
任何一个思想健全的印刷商和出版商,都会嘲笑你去假定诗人需要这样的东西。
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