contempt
英 [kən'tem(p)t]
美[kən'tɛmpt]
- n. 轻视，蔑视；耻辱
考试真题
- One argument that you tend to hear a lot from the pro-tipping crowd seems logical enough: the service is better when waiters depend on tips, presumably because they see a benefit to successfully veiling their contempt for you.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
- These emotions included interest, joy, surprise, sadness, anger, disgust, contempt, and fear.
2019年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C
- “So few authors have brains enough or literary gift enough to keep their own end up in journalism,” Newman wrote,“that I am tempted to define‘journalism’ as‘a term of contempt applied by writers who are not read to writers who are'.
出自-2010年考研阅读原文
- So few authors have brains enough or literary gift enough to keep their own end up in journalism. Newman wrote that "I am tempted to define ‘journalism' as a term of contempt applied by writers who are not read to writers who are."
2010年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ