| 单词 | to make a reflection |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make (also cast) a reflection c. A disparaging or insulting remark or statement, esp. one intended to bring discredit on (also upon) a person or a person's reputation. Frequently to make (also cast) a reflection and variants. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > slander or calumny > [noun] > a slander or calumny slander1297 calumniation1588 reflect1594 aspersion1596 scandal1604 calumny1616 libel1618 reflection1646 vilification1709 1646 E. Bowles Manifest Truth 34 There is added..a bitter, and I think unjust reflection upon the Commissioners, employed by the Parliament in the North. 1675 R. Burthogge Cavsa Dei 11 I abhor Reflections and Hard Words, as neither Philosophical, nor Civil, nor Christian. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. iv. 245 All those sharp Reflexions which could be made, upon the King himself. 1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity iii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 490 May no reflection shed Its poisonous venom on the royal dead. 1788 J. Priestley Lect. Hist. iv. xx. 161 The Baeotians were Plutarch's countrymen and he could not bear that any reflection, though ever so just, should be cast upon them. 1870 F. M. Müller Sci. Relig. (1873) 395 Had his personal reflections concerned myself alone. 1882 Cent. Mag. Feb. 489/1 Perish the thought, here, that any reflection is implied upon Daniel's supper! 1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-bk. Sherlock Holmes 97 I withdraw any reflection I have made upon your amazing professional powers. 1950 Times 5 Sept. 6/3 This can hardly be described as persecution without casting a reflection on the new régime. 2004 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 6 Feb. 4 [He] denied he was making a reflection on Mr Howard's age, but emphasising that Australia was ready for a younger outlook on politics and life. < as lemmas |
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