pooh-pooh
美 [?pu ?pu]
英 
- v.說…不真實;對…不屑一顧(或嗤之以鼻)
- int.呸呸
- 網絡表示輕蔑;輕視;嘲笑
詞形變化
第三人稱單數:pooh-poohs 現在分詞:pooh-poohing 過去式:pooh-poohed 反義詞
同義詞
英漢雙解
1. |
~ sth 說…不真實;對…不屑一顧(或嗤之以鼻)to say that a suggestion, an idea, etc. is not true or not worth thinking about |
英漢解釋
英英解釋
例句
Sure some pooh-pooh such technical strategies as a form of capitalistic numerology.
當然,一些人士認為此類技術策略只是一種資本主義的數字命理學。
Equality campaigners pooh-pooh the idea that permission to hold civil-partnership registrations could ever become an obligation to do so.
關于平等的社會運動人士對此報以噓聲。他們認為允許進行同性民事關系登記這樣的事情不會成為一種義務。
Photographers usually pooh-pooh electronic viewfinders, because no screen is as sharp as real life.
攝影師一向對電子取景器嗤之以鼻,因為這東西沒辦法讓圖像和現實中一樣犀利。
The government would pooh-pooh such a notion.
泰國政府可能對這種念頭嗤之以鼻。
On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic.
在另外一邊,你的同事們嘲笑你杞人憂天,神經質。
We could not pooh-pooh these things-they had an evil look.
我們對這類事情可不能大意--看樣子是有點兒蹺蹊。
And when Lionel started his bakery the French pooh-pooh-ed it.
最初當萊昂內爾推出他的法式面包時法國人都很不屑。
"Think they just want to kind of pooh-pooh it away and say it's no big thing, " said Sister Carol, a nun for 43 years.
43歲修女卡羅爾說,“他們只是想要遠離那種蔑視,而且認為這不是什么大不了的事情。”
And I know that some vegetarians pooh pooh Meatless Monday as not enough.
我知道有些素食者對“周一無肉日”不削一顧,因為這不夠。