| 单词 | epithet |
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| 释义 | ep·i·thet /ˈepəθet/ noun [countable] DESCRIBEa word or short phrase used to describe someone, especially when praising them or saying something unpleasant about them 〔尤用于褒贬某人的〕表述词语 He hardly deserves the epithet ‘fascist’. 用“法西斯分子”这个词来形容他并不恰当。Examples from the Corpusepithet• She jumped out of the car and hurried along the road, ignoring the colourful epithet that followed her.• The former epithet is apt, the latter less so.• According to one report: Racial epithets were shouted at the black students as the two sides rumbled on the gray linoleum.• Unessential is actually an unfair epithet when applied to sticky buns.• Bias in nouns does not stop with epithets.Origin epithet (1500-1600) Latin epitheton, from Greek, from epitithenai “to put on, add”ep·i·thet nounChineseSyllable word phrase used to a Corpus short or |
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