记忆方法
为了记住“contumely”，可以将其分解为“contum”和“-ely”两部分。首先，“contum”可以联想到“contempt”，即轻视或侮辱，然后“-ely”是一个表示程度的后缀，相当于“充满”或“非常”。因此，可以将“contumely”想象为“充满轻视或不敬的言辞或态度”。这样的联想可以帮助你记住这个单词的含义。
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词族 · contumely
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英语词源
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contumely: [14] The idea underlying contumely ‘insolence’ is ‘swelling up’. It comes, via Old French contumelie, from Latin contumēlia ‘insult, reproach’, a compound noun formed from the intensive prefix com- and (probably) tumēre ‘swell’ (source of English tumour). The sense development – from being ‘puffed up’ and ‘angry’, ‘proud’, or ‘stubborn’ through ‘overbearing’ to ‘insulting’ – appears also to be reflected in contumacy ‘insubordination’ [14], whose Latin source contumācia likewise probably came from tumēre.
=> contumacy, tumour - contumely (n.)
- late 14c., from Old French contumelie, from Latin contumelia "a reproach, insult," probably related to contumax "haughty, stubborn," from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + tumere "to swell up" (see tumid).
The unhappy man left his country forever. The howl of contumely followed him across the sea, up the Rhine, over the Alps; it gradually waxed fainter; it died away; those who had raised it began to ask each other, what, after all, was the matter about which they had been so clamorous, and wished to invite back the criminal whom they had just chased from them. [Thomas Babington Macaulay, "Lord Byron," 1877]
权威例句
- 1. And as the contumely is greater towards god, so the danger is greater towards men.
- 这种对神的侮辱越大则其对人的危险也越大。
- 2. The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely.
- 忍受压迫者虐待 、 傲慢者凌辱.