英语词典 · 单词释义
contumely
英 ['kɒntjuːmɪlɪ; -tjuːmlɪ] 美
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词义详解
翻译 · 词源 · 例句- n. 侮辱；无礼；傲慢
延伸内容
词源 · 例句 · 用法词态变化
复数: contumelies;
英文词源
- contumely
- contumely: [14] The idea underlying contumely ‘insolence’ is ‘swelling up’. It comes, via Old French contumelie, from Latin contumēlia ‘insult, reproach’, a compound noun formed from the intensive prefix com- and (probably) tumēre ‘swell’ (source of English tumour). The sense development – from being ‘puffed up’ and ‘angry’, ‘proud’, or ‘stubborn’ through ‘overbearing’ to ‘insulting’ – appears also to be reflected in contumacy ‘insubordination’ [14], whose Latin source contumācia likewise probably came from tumēre.
=> contumacy, tumour - contumely (n.)
- late 14c., from Old French contumelie, from Latin contumelia "a reproach, insult," probably related to contumax "haughty, stubborn," from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + tumere "to swell up" (see tumid).
The unhappy man left his country forever. The howl of contumely followed him across the sea, up the Rhine, over the Alps; it gradually waxed fainter; it died away; those who had raised it began to ask each other, what, after all, was the matter about which they had been so clamorous, and wished to invite back the criminal whom they had just chased from them. [Thomas Babington Macaulay, "Lord Byron," 1877]
双语例句
- 1. And as the contumely is greater towards god, so the danger is greater towards men.
- 这种对神的侮辱越大则其对人的危险也越大。
来自辞典例句
- 2. The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely.
- 忍受压迫者虐待 、 傲慢者凌辱.
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