pejorative
音标发音
- 英式音标 [pɪˈdʒɒr.ə.tɪv]
- 美式音标 [pɪˈdʒɔːr.ə.t̬ɪv]
- 国际音标 ['pi:dʒərətive]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- adj. 輕蔑的，貶損的；惡化的，變壞的
- n. 輕蔑語，貶義詞
词根记忆
- pejor(壞的) + ative→變壞的→輕眡的，貶低的
- pejor(壞) + ative→變壞的→貶抑的
英汉例句
- Soldiers invent "mildly pejorative terms" to help them blow off steam, Adams says.
亞儅斯說， 戰士們發明的“輕度貶義詞”幫助他們對於沒能得到足夠好的裝備而 發泄不滿和怨 氣。 - He refused to use the word intelligentsia, engineering instead the ugly and pejorative obrazovanshchina, roughly “educatedness”.
他拒絕使用”知識界”（intelligentsia）一詞來描述他們，而自造出一個語含輕蔑的貶義詞，”obrazovanshchina”，意思基本等於”識字的”。 - In more recent years, at least judging from a search of the Post archives, cads, thugs, molesters, and swindlers have most frequently elicited what the paper might call the porcine pejorative.
在最近的這些年裡，至少從對档案的數據庫可以判斷出，新聞報紙上更會經常使用像豬一樣的這個輕蔑的詞來指代無賴，惡棍，猥褻犯，騙子這類人。 - But the difference - it has assumed a pejorative meaning, just like the proverbial...
NPR: Words Matter: Terms of Global Conflict Debated - But it was also just good journalism to discontinue the use of a needless pejorative term.
FORBES: Language, Politics, and Journalistic Objectivity - But ideology is just a pejorative word for principles in which you happen not to believe.
ECONOMIST: Lexington
雙語例句
權威例句
词组短语
- pejorative suffix 輕蔑詞尾
- B pejorative 貶低的
- Pejorative prefixes 貶義前綴;表示錯誤意義的前綴
- pejorative epithet 輕蔑意義的脩飾詞
- pejorative e 退化的
短語
英英字典
- expressing disapproval, or suggesting that something is not good or is of no importance
- A pejorative word or expression is one that expresses criticism of someone or something.
劍橋英英字典
柯林斯英英字典
专业释义
- 退化的
- 惡化的