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单词 scoff
释义
scoff
verb
uk
/skɒf/us
/skɑːf/

scoffverb(LAUGH)

[I]
tolaughandtalkabout apersonorideain a way thatshowsthat youthinkthey arestupidorsilly:
Thecriticsscoffedathispaintings.批评家对他的画作嗤之以鼻。
Yearsagopeoplewould have scoffedattheideathatcarswould bebuiltbyrobots.多年前，人们会嘲笑让机器人来制造汽车这种想法。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Mocking and taunting
  • caricature
  • deride
  • derision
  • derisive
  • derisively
  • grief
  • haze
  • laugh insomeone'sfaceidiom
  • layyourselfopen to ridiculeidiom
  • make a mockery ofsomethingidiom
  • make a monkey out ofsomeoneidiom
  • mimic
  • mimicry
  • mock
  • parody
  • ridicule
  • sardonic
  • sardonically
  • scoffer
  • self-caricature
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scoffverb(EAT)

[T]UKinformal
(USscarf)
toeatsomethingquicklyandeagerly:
狼吞虎咽地吃
Ibakedahugecakethismorning, and thekidsscoffed the lot.我今天早上烤了一个大蛋糕，孩子们狼吞虎咽地全吃光了。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
to eat food
  • eatWhat do you want to eat for lunch?
  • haveI'll just have one more piece of chocolate cake.
  • consumeHe consumes vast quantities of bread with every meal.
  • devourThe children devoured a whole packet of biscuits.
  • bolt (down)Don't bolt down your food - you'll make yourself ill!
  • gobble (up/down)The children gobbled their sweets.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Eating
  • al desko
  • binge
  • binge eating
  • bite
  • break breadidiom
  • cram
  • fall on/uponsomeone
  • feast
  • feast onsomething
  • feeder
  • feeding
  • mainline
  • partake
  • pick
  • pick atsomething
  • picnic
  • pig
  • shovel
  • trough
  • tuck
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scoffer
scoff
noun[Cusually plural]
uk
/skɒf/us
/skɑːf/
laughterat apersonorideathatshowsyouthinkthey arestupidorsilly:
Despite the scoffs of hercolleagues, theexperimentwascompletelysuccessful.
Thiscomplaintmightbringscoffs ofmocksympathy.
More examples
  • I was reallyhopinghisreactionwas a scoff ofdisbelief.
  • Iheartheirjeersand scoffs.
  • I won'tlistento the scoffs -peoplescoffed the lasttime.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Mocking and taunting
  • caricature
  • deride
  • derision
  • derisive
  • derisively
  • grief
  • haze
  • laugh insomeone'sfaceidiom
  • layyourselfopen to ridiculeidiom
  • make a mockery ofsomethingidiom
  • make a monkey out ofsomeoneidiom
  • mimic
  • mimicry
  • mock
  • parody
  • ridicule
  • sardonic
  • sardonically
  • scoffer
  • self-caricature
See more results »
(Definition ofscofffrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
scoff
verb
uk
/skɒf/us
/skɑːf/

scoffverb(LAUGH)

[I]
tolaughandspeakabout apersonorideain a way thatshowsthat youthinkthey arestupidorsilly
嘲笑，讥笑
Thecriticsscoffedathispaintings.批评家对他的画作嗤之以鼻。
Years agopeoplewould have scoffedattheideathatcarswould bebuiltbyrobots.多年前，人们会嘲笑让机器人来制造汽车这种想法。

scoffverb(EAT)

[T]UKinformal
(USscarf)
toeatsomethingquicklyand eagerly
狼吞虎咽地吃
Ibakedahugecakethismorning, and thekidsscoffed the lot.我今天早上烤了一个大蛋糕，孩子们狼吞虎咽地全吃光了。

scoff| American Dictionary

scoff
verb[I]
us
/skɔf,skɑf/
tospeakabout someone or something in a way whichshowsthat you have norespectfor thatpersonor thing:
Thecoachscoffed at thenotionthat he was about toresign.
(Definition ofscofffrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofscoff

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I can remember people scoffing at the idea that we would find teachers in this way, but we have found 5,000.
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The suggestion that the rich will grow rich and the poor will grow poorer is scoffed at.
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Anyone who scoffs and says that this is an irrelevance has only to speak to people who come from afar.
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Every time any reference is made to the years between 1945 and 1951 there are scoffs and sneers from the benches opposite.
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They are attacking these building societies and scoffing at them.
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One hundred pounds has been scoffed at this afternoon, but it is not a very small sum.
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The creation of happiness for the greatest number is an ideal that he followed, and it is not to be scoffed at.
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We have a remedy which is much scoffed at.
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Indeed, he scoffed at the description of the tax as broadly-based and referred to the wide-range of zero rating.
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What has concerned me most has been that the opponents of the proposed referendum have tried to defeat the idea by scorning and scoffing.
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He rather scoffed at this question of standard revenue and treated it very lightly.
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A few years ago, people would have scoffed at the suggestion of a female astronaut, let alone females in every profession.
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We were scoffed at for doing it, but it gave greater security to the backward nations than anything of the kind we are now discussing.
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The proposals have been scoffed at because it was said that loopholes were nonexistent, or were so small that the revenue lost was negligible.
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He scoffed at those who do not approve of economic nationalism.
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