pejorative

单词pejorative

基本解释

adj.: 贬损的；轻蔑的
n.: 【语】轻蔑语
网络: 带有轻蔑意义的；退化的；贬低的

权威解释

• 贬损的；轻蔑的:

  a word or remark that ispejorative expresses disapproval or criticism

英汉解释

• 【语法】轻蔑语

• 恶化的,变坏的;使带有轻蔑[贬低]意义的

• 退化(贬抑)的

词性分析

• 复数：pejoratives

同义词

adj.disapprovingjudgmentalharshscornfulderogatory

反义词

adj.positive

例句

• But "fat" is only pejorative when we allow places like the sun bar to tell us that being fat somehow makes us less of a person.

  可是，只有当我们许可像太阳酒吧如许的处所告诉我们，肥胖莫名其妙地让我们低人一等的时辰，“肥胖”才具有贬义。

• "Eye candy" -- sort of pejorative, don"t you think?

  “视觉糖果”（华而不实）--你不觉得有点轻蔑吗？

• Jargon is inappropriate, whether elevated, as in specialized technical language, or demeaning, as in a pejorative gibe.

  技术行话，不论多专业或是多富含技术性，此类意含嘲讽的写法皆不宜使用。

• Soldiers invent "mildly pejorative terms" to help them blow off steam, Adams says.

  亚当斯说，战士们发明的“轻度贬义词”帮助他们对于没能得到足够好的装备而发泄不满和怨气。

• Because he was small, and little man in four characters two characters " small" is a pejorative term.

  因为他个子小，取人小鬼大四字中两个字“人小”算是轻蔑的称呼。

• Many use the term myth in a pejorative sense to mean that the stories described are not factually true.

  许多人把神话这个词用作贬义，神话意味着描述的故事事实上是不存在的。

• For my father, who saved or gave away so much of his modest income, the ultimate pejorative was "big spender. "

  我的父亲，为了他收入不高的工作保留和放弃很多，这样做的根本就是他是一个巨大的挥霍者。

• I find the whole slant of this article pejorative and misleading.

  我发现，文章的落脚点是偏激的且具有误导性的。

• Although the term "pyramid" may sound rather pejorative, it is true of all pension schemes.

  尽管“老鼠会”这个字眼听起来很刺耳，但却道出了所有养老金计划的本质。

• Yet we need not be readers of Ruskin to know that competition also has a pejorative sense, even in American usage.

  然而，我们就是不读拉斯金的书也知道，竞争也是带有贬意的，哪怕是在美语的用法中也是这样。