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小词详解 | flout
flout 英 [flaʊt] 美 [flaʊt]
Most bosses complain of being slaves to short-term profit targets. Yet a few flout the orthodoxy in flamboyant fashion.
大多数老板都抱怨自己成了短期利润目标的奴隶,不过却有少数人趾高气扬地公然无视这一正统目标。
——《经济学人》Their romance operandi — hooking up and hanging out — flouts the golden rule of what makes marriages and love work: emotional vulnerability.
他们的恋爱方式——先勾搭,再厮混——完全无视促成美满婚姻和幸福爱情的金科玉律:情感的脆弱性。
——《纽约时报》
[动词] 公然无视(规定、法律或惯例)
许多骑摩托车的人无视新颁布的法律,不戴头盔。
Many motorcyclists flout the newly enacted law by not wearing helmets.这只最具颠覆性的管弦乐队决定一改传统,在音乐会上穿日常服装。
The most subversive orchestra decided to flout convention, and wear their everyday clothes for the concert.
Rebelliously she leaned her elbows on the counter and looked at the crowd, flouting Mammy's oft-repeated admonition against leaning on elbows and making them ugly and wrinkled.
她心怀敌意地撑着两肘倚立在柜台内观望人群,尽管嬷嬷经常告诫她这种姿势会把肘子磨皱和扭歪的。
disdain: consider to be unworthy of one's consideration defy: openly resist or refuse to obey scorn: reject (something) in a contemptuous way