be contemptuous of

基本解釋

We thought it was contemptible of him to be contemptuous of people for being weak.
我們認為他因別人身體虛弱而加以蔑視的態(tài)度是可鄙的。
The snobbery about the tournament has been absurd, but there are few nations left who can afford to be contemptuous of it.
對歐聯(lián)杯不夠重視已經讓人不能理解，而且依照現(xiàn)在的情況，也沒有哪個國家有資本輕視這項賽事。
But to come up with a few declarations or protocols and ask the Irish to vote again would not just be contemptuous of democracy: the turnout and margin of defeat also suggest that it might fail.
但是如果采用諸如發(fā)表一些宣言或者議定書要求愛爾蘭進行再次公投那對民主來說就不僅僅是侮辱那么簡單了：結果和失敗的概率意味著公投還是不會成功的。

Although pro-slavery writers will become deeply contemptuous of Natural Law of Natural Law doctrine as it can be applied to the possibilities of man.
雖然親奴制的作家,會非常蔑視自然法和及其規(guī)律法則,因為它能激發(fā)人類的潛能
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British admirals tend to be contemptuous of such ideas.
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But to come up with a few declarations or protocols and ask the Irish to vote again would not just be contemptuous of democracy: the turnout and margin of defeat also suggest that it might fail.
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In his speeches he revealed himself to be profoundly contemptuous of blacks beyond what was required politically, and through his wife he was himself a slaveholder.
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