pejorative
常見例句
- Soldiers invent "mildly pejorative terms" to help them blow off steam, Adams says.
亞儅斯說, 戰(zhàn)士們發(fā)明的“輕度貶義詞”幫助他們對於沒能得到足夠好的裝備而 發(fā)泄不滿和怨 氣。 - He refused to use the word intelligentsia, engineering instead the ugly and pejorative obrazovanshchina, roughly “educatedness”.
他拒絕使用”知識界”(intelligentsia)一詞來描述他們,而自造出一個(gè)語含輕蔑的貶義詞,”obrazovanshchina”,意思基本等於”識字的”。 - In more recent years, at least judging from a search of the Post archives, cads, thugs, molesters, and swindlers have most frequently elicited what the paper might call the porcine pejorative.
在最近的這些年裡,至少從對檔案的數(shù)據(jù)庫可以判斷出,新聞報(bào)紙上更會(huì)經(jīng)常使用像豬一樣的這個(gè)輕蔑的詞來指代無賴,惡棍,猥褻犯,騙子這類人。 - But the difference - it has assumed a pejorative meaning, just like the proverbial...
NPR: Words Matter: Terms of Global Conflict Debated - But it was also just good journalism to discontinue the use of a needless pejorative term.
FORBES: Language, Politics, and Journalistic Objectivity - But ideology is just a pejorative word for principles in which you happen not to believe.
ECONOMIST: Lexington 返回 pejorative