英语词汇“don't mock the afflicted”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

to mock the afflicted: to speak or behave maliciously, insultingly, or insensitively to someone already in distress or suffering misfortune; now (chiefly British) often used hyperbolically in negative contexts, as don't mock the afflicted.

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1838 Youth's Compan. 27 Apr. 200 He even mocked the afflicted; drove away the beggar; insulted the aged.

1846 F. L. Mortimer Light in Dwelling 156 We should but mock the afflicted, if we were to say [to a grieving widow], ‘Weep not’.

1885 Baily's Mag. Sept. 440 It would have seemed like mocking the afflicted to have held a semi-sporting gathering in the breezy Derbyshire town [sc. Buxton]. To have paraded before them horses that they could not mount would have only reminded them of their ailments.

1958 Spectator 31 Oct. 577/3 He fumbles a line or two in the process and forgets himself enough to rebuke the audience for thinking this is all part of the act—‘Oooh, it's wicked to mock the afflicted’, he shouts with a squirm and a grimace.

1973 Guardian 19 Dec. 10/1 They're laughing at that funny man [sc. the comedian Ken Dodd] with the teeth that stick out and the hair that stands up. But you told us that we shouldn't mock the afflicted.

2004 People (Nexis) 22 Aug. 40 I won't go on too much about the Hammers, because good Northerners don't mock the afflicted.

单词	don't mock the afflicted
释义	> as lemmas don't mock the afflicted to mock the afflicted: to speak or behave maliciously, insultingly, or insensitively to someone already in distress or suffering misfortune; now (chiefly British) often used hyperbolically in negative contexts, as don't mock the afflicted. ΚΠ 1838 Youth's Compan. 27 Apr. 200 He even mocked the afflicted; drove away the beggar; insulted the aged. 1846 F. L. Mortimer Light in Dwelling 156 We should but mock the afflicted, if we were to say [to a grieving widow], ‘Weep not’. 1885 Baily's Mag. Sept. 440 It would have seemed like mocking the afflicted to have held a semi-sporting gathering in the breezy Derbyshire town [sc. Buxton]. To have paraded before them horses that they could not mount would have only reminded them of their ailments. 1958 Spectator 31 Oct. 577/3 He fumbles a line or two in the process and forgets himself enough to rebuke the audience for thinking this is all part of the act—‘Oooh, it's wicked to mock the afflicted’, he shouts with a squirm and a grimace. 1973 Guardian 19 Dec. 10/1 They're laughing at that funny man [sc. the comedian Ken Dodd] with the teeth that stick out and the hair that stands up. But you told us that we shouldn't mock the afflicted. 2004 People (Nexis) 22 Aug. 40 I won't go on too much about the Hammers, because good Northerners don't mock the afflicted. extracted from afflictedadj.n. < as lemmas
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