affront

英 [əˈfrʌnt]

美 [əˈfrʌnt]

n.  侮辱; 冒犯
v.  侮辱; 冒犯

过去分词：affronted　过去式：affronted　复数：affronts　现在分词：affronting　第三人称单数：affronts　

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Collins.1 / BNC.13922 / COCA.16245

牛津词典

noun

• 侮辱；冒犯
  a remark or an action that insults or offends sb/sth

verb

• 侮辱；冒犯
  to insult or offend sb
  1. He hoped they would not feel affronted if they were not invited .
     他希望如果他们没有获得邀请也不要感到受辱。
  2. an affronted expression
     受到冒犯的表情

柯林斯词典

• VERB 侮辱；冒犯
  If somethingaffrontsyou, you feel insulted and hurt because of it.
  1. ...an incident which particularly affronted Kasparov.
     让卡斯帕罗夫感到特别受辱的一件事
• N-COUNT 侮辱；冒犯
  If something is anaffront toyou, it is an obvious insult to you.
  1. It's an affront to human dignity to keep someone alive like this...
     如此维持一个人的生命是对人类尊严的冒犯。
  2. She has taken my enquiry as a personal affront.
     她将我的询问当成了人身侮辱。

英英释义

noun

• a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect
  1. turning his back on me was a deliberate insult
  Synonym:insult

verb

• treat, mention, or speak to rudely
  1. He insulted her with his rude remarks
  2. the student who had betrayed his classmate was dissed by everyone
  Synonym:dissinsult

双语例句

• I am a nationalist and I regard such behaviour not only as an affront to Italian pride but also an offence to a country which two years ago opened its doors to him.
  我是一个民族主义者，我认这种行为不仅是对意大利尊严的侮辱，也是对一个两年前向他敞开大门的国家的冒犯。
• In any other Chinese city the ringleaders of such an affront would risk detention, arrest and imprisonment.
  在中国其它任何一个城市，这种公开冒犯中央权威行为的组织者都可能被拘捕和监禁。
• His speech was an affront to them.
  他的演说对他们来说是冒犯。
• The sin of Ananias and Sapphira was an affront to the holiness of God in His church.
  亚拿尼亚和撒非喇的罪就是挑战圣洁的神和他的教会。
• Nell takes it as a personal affront.
  内尔认为这是对他个人的公然侮辱。
• It was an affront to common decency.
  这是对社会礼仪的公然冒犯。
• She saw their rejection of her as an affront to her dignity.
  她将他们对她的排斥视为对她尊严的冒犯。
• She has taken my enquiry as a personal affront.
  她将我的询问当成了人身侮辱。
• An affront to nature, a blasphemy, man playing God& such comments were often made.
  这是对自然的轻蔑，是对上帝的亵渎，是人在扮演上帝&人们常常作出诸如此类的评论。
• It's an affront to human dignity to keep someone alive like this
  如此维持一个人的生命是对人类尊严的冒犯。