affront的意思|affront的解释-里氏词典

affront [ə'frʌnt]

n. 公开侮辱, 轻蔑

vt. 公开侮辱, 冒犯, 面对

[法] 当众侮辱, 有意冒犯

He put an affront upon me.
他当众侮辱我。
His speech was an affront to all members of the community.
他的话对社区所有成员是故意的侮辱。
I will affront fact myself.
我要自己面对现实.

affront

[ noun ]

a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect

<noun.act>

turning his back on me was a deliberate insult

[ verb ]

treat, mention, or speak to rudely

<verb.communication>

diss

insult

He insulted her with his rude remarks
the student who had betrayed his classmate was dissed by everyone

Affront \Af*front"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Affronted}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Affronting}.] [OF. afronter, F. affronter, to
confront, LL. affrontare to strike against, fr. L. ad + frons
forehead, front. See {Front}.]
1. To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face
to face. [Obs.]

All the sea-coasts do affront the Levant. --Holland.

That he, as 't were by accident, may here
Affront Ophelia. --Shak.

2. To face in defiance; to confront; as, to affront death;
hence, to meet in hostile encounter. [Archaic]

3. To offend by some manifestation of disrespect; to insult
to the face by demeanor or language; to treat with marked
incivility.

How can any one imagine that the fathers would have
dared to affront the wife of Aurelius? --Addison.

Syn: To insult; abuse; outrage; wound; illtreat; slight;
defy; offend; provoke; pique; nettle.

Affront \Af*front"\, n. [Cf. F. affront, fr. affronter.]
1. An encounter either friendly or hostile. [Obs.]

I walked about, admired of all, and dreaded
On hostile ground, none daring my affront. --Milton.

2. Contemptuous or rude treatment which excites or justifies
resentment; marked disrespect; a purposed indignity;
insult.

Offering an affront to our understanding. --Addison.

3. An offense to one's self-respect; shame. --Arbuthnot.

Syn: {Affront}, {Insult}, {Outrage}.

Usage: An affront is a designed mark of disrespect, usually
in the presence of others. An insult is a personal
attack either by words or actions, designed to
humiliate or degrade. An outrage is an act of extreme
and violent insult or abuse. An affront piques and
mortifies; an insult irritates and provokes; an
outrage wounds and injures.

Captious persons construe every innocent freedom
into an affront. When people are in a state of
animosity, they seek opportunities of offering
each other insults. Intoxication or violent
passion impels men to the commission of
outrages. --Crabb.

Pocket \Pock"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pocketed}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Pocketing}.]
1. To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the
change.

He would pocket the expense of the license.
--Sterne.

2. To take clandestinely or fraudulently.

He pocketed pay in the names of men who had long
been dead. --Macaulay.

{To pocket a ball} (Billiards), to drive a ball into a pocket
of the table.

{To pocket an insult}, {affront}, etc., to receive an affront
without open resentment, or without seeking redress. ``I
must pocket up these wrongs.'' --Shak.

Though Muigai's crime was an "affront to the people of the United States," Wolin said he was satisfied Muigai was remorseful and had learned a "bitter lesson."
Magic Johnson's nomination to sainthood by TV and virtually all newspapers was an affront to our Judeo-Christian tradition and to the Muslim tradition.
This ethnic background meant that had Mr Baqi questioned the veracity of what he was told by Mr Naqvi and other bank officials, it would have constituted a deep insult and affront to them. The trial continues today.
Benedict Ferro, district director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, was adamant about not letting the family return, saying to do so would be an affront to millions of people waiting to enter lawfully.
New Zealand condemned the action as an affront to residents of the South Pacific.
Administration officials have been waging a heavy lobbying campaign to get Congress to act on the president's $800 million aid package for Central America, calling further delay an affront to U.S. allies in the region.
He also deplored 'the election to a local council of a candidate whose very policies are an affront to the overwhelming majority of the British public'. Mr Howard must be given credit when it is his due.
As he says: 'To many people, the world of quarks and black holes is an affront.
German peace activists have been behind numerous moves to erect monuments to World War II deserters, often angering people who feel it is an affront to those who died fighting.
State Department spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler called the threat "an affront to the entire civilized community."
To their delight, Mr. Treurnicht likens a unitary state to the Tower of Babel, an affront to God's will and doomed to failure.
Union Carbide argued that any injunction would be an affront to the Connecticut court that is judging the case with private lawyers of gas victims.
But the Anglo-Saxon habit of quickly adopting first names can affront some sensibilities.
"It was real affront to his running mate Mr. Dukakis," Conte said of Bentsen's move. "He spat at him.
This must be a real affront to the Iraqis.
Just five miles down the road from the jobs summit conference centre in Detroit the brand new Jefferson North Chrysler car plant is a standing affront to much of the G7 debate about job creation.
President Bush today called homelessness "an affront to the American dream" and said he wants to help get "ragged and pathetic figures" off the streets of the nation's capital and urban America.
It constitutes an affront to the fair operation of the marketplace," the judge said.
Critics said the IMF's proposed cure for the economy was recessionary, and nationalists protested that the agency's monitoring of Brazil's economic performance was an affront to the country's sovereignty.
Given semi-autonomous status in 1923, it has long been regarded by Azeri nationalists as an affront to their national integrity.
It's an affront not only to African-Americans as a whole, but we also feel the paper is racist," said sophomore Randy Morrison, who was among those angered by the Aug. 29 editorial in The Yellow Jacket.
Ryan said the omission was not intended as a deliberate affront to the three states.
She offers her home to Shaz, whose swearing, smoking, drinking and lesbianism at first seem like an affront to everything the God-fearing Esme values. A battle of wills begins, and a sad mutual past of child abuse emerges.

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