scoff
verb /skɒf/
/skɑːf/
动词形式
| present simple I / you / we / they scoff | /skɒf/ /skɑːf/ |
| he / she / it scoffs | /skɒfs/ /skɑːfs/ |
| past simple scoffed | /skɒft/ /skɑːft/ |
| past participle scoffed | /skɒft/ /skɑːft/ |
| -ing form scoffing | /ˈskɒfɪŋ/ /ˈskɑːfɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] to talk about somebody/something in a way that makes it clear that you think they are stupid or silly
嘲笑；讥讽 - Don't scoff—she's absolutely right.
别嘲笑她，她绝对正确。 - scoff at somebody/something He scoffed at our amateurish attempts.
他对我们不在行的尝试嗤之以鼻。 - + speech ‘Don't be ridiculous,’ she scoffed.
“别傻了，”她嘲笑道。
- Don't scoff—she's absolutely right.
- (British English) (North American English scarf)[transitive] scoff something (informal) to eat a lot of something quickly
贪婪地吃；狼吞虎咽 - Who scoffed all the grapes?
谁那么贪嘴，把葡萄全吃光了？
- Who scoffed all the grapes?
词源sense 1 Middle English (first used as a noun in the sense ‘mockery, scorn’): perhaps of Scandinavian origin.sense 2 late 18th cent. (as a verb): originally a variant of Scots and dialect scaff. The noun is from Afrikaans schoff, representing Dutch schoft ‘quarter of a day’, (by extension) ‘meal’.