affronts

英 [əˈfrʌnts]

美 [əˈfrʌnts]

n.  侮辱; 冒犯
v.  侮辱; 冒犯
affront的第三人称单数和复数

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。

双语例句

• The fourth chapter concludes the function of euphemism in Dream of the Red Mansions. The function is for the taboo, evades affronts, the table modest respect, cover landscaping, evades strives for elegantly vulgarly, to show the training.
  第四章借鉴他人关于委婉语功能的研究成果，总结出《红楼梦》委婉语的语用功能是为避讳、避冒犯、表谦敬、掩饰美化、避俗求雅、显示修养。
• Anne herself was become hardened to such affronts; but she felt the imprudence of the arrangement quite as keenly as Lady Russell.
  安妮本人对这种蔑视已经无动于衷了，但她还是像拉塞尔夫人一样敏锐地感到，这样的安排有些轻率。
• All forms of racism, prejudice, and discrimination are affronts to the work of Christ on the cross.
  所有形式的种族主义，偏见和歧视都冒犯了基督在十字架上做的工。
• Don't ruminate on past affronts or injustices.
  莫要沉湎于过去所受的侮辱或者不公平。
• How can you stomach their affronts?
  你怎么能够忍受他们的侮辱？
• The problems of urban affronts have become anything important to the urban ecology and urban ecosystem. At present, the affronts research mainly consist in logging and garden, accent the natural characters of plants climax.
  城市绿化问题已经成为城市生态、城市生态系统研究的重要内容，目前，主要是从城市造林和城市园林绿化角度进行阐述，重点研究城市植物群落的自然属性。