| 释义 |
laugh something to scorn dated Ridicule something: she laughed their gossip to scorn...- Every paid-up Postmodernist knows how to laugh this doctrine to scorn; it is just that most of them disastrously throw out Orwell's politics of lucidity along with it.
- Their stupid opinion is just as valid as the millions of people who laugh this assertion to scorn.
- He told me that they had all laughed the comment to scorn, but that now he had been somewhere with no decent plumbing he had to conclude that it was the simple truth.
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