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. 轻蔑的，贬损的；恶化的，变坏的
- n. 轻蔑语，贬义词
词根记忆
- pejor(坏的) + ative→变坏的→轻视的，贬低的
- pejor(坏) + ative→变坏的→贬抑的
英汉例句
- 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。 - He refused to use the word intelligentsia, engineering instead the ugly and pejorative obrazovanshchina, roughly “educatedness”.
他拒绝使用”知识界”（intelligentsia）一词来描述他们，而自造出一个语含轻蔑的贬义词，”obrazovanshchina”，意思基本等于”识字的”。 - 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.
在最近的这些年里，至少从对档案的数据库可以判断出，新闻报纸上更会经常使用像猪一样的这个轻蔑的词来指代无赖，恶棍，猥亵犯，骗子这类人。 - 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
双语例句
权威例句
词组短语
- pejorative suffix 轻蔑词尾
- B pejorative 贬低的
- Pejorative prefixes 贬义前缀;表示错误意义的前缀
- pejorative epithet 轻蔑意义的修饰词
- pejorative e 退化的
短语
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.
剑桥英英字典
柯林斯英英字典
专业释义
- 退化的
- 恶化的