repudiate

来自拉丁语 repudiare,拒绝，否认，离婚，来自 repudium,离婚，断绝婚姻关系，来自 re-,向 后，离开，*pudium,击，打，来自 PIE*pu,击，打，词源同 pave,compute.也有学者认为该词 来自 ped,脚，踢，词源同 foot.

repudiate

repudiate: [16] Repudiate originally meant ‘divorce one’s wife’. It comes from Latin repudiāre ‘divorce, reject’, a derivative of the noun repudium ‘divorce’. It has been suggested that the ultimate source of this may be pēs ‘foot’ (source of English pedal), in which case its underlying meaning would be virtually ‘kick out’.

repudiate (v.)

1540s, "to cast off by divorce," from Latin repudiatus, past participle of repudiare "to cast off, put away, divorce, reject, scorn, disdain," from repudium "divorce, rejection, a putting away, dissolution of marriage," from re- "back, away" (see re-) + pudium, which is probably related to pes/ped- "foot" [Barnhart]. If this is so, the original notion may be of kicking something away, but folk etymology commonly connects it with pudere "cause shame to." Of opinions, conduct, etc., "to refuse to acknowledge," attested from 1824. Earliest in English as an adjective meaning "divorced, rejected, condemned" (mid-15c.). Related: Repudiated; repudiating.

1. to repudiate a suggestion

拒绝一项建议

2. He used his position to repudiate the charge.

他利用自己的职位来否认指控.

3. Leaders urged people to turn out in large numbers to repudiate the violence.

领导们力劝人们集体出面反对暴力。

4. However, the Citizens opinion does not necessarily repudiate that proposition.

但不管怎样, "公民"案的意见未必就否认了这一主张.

5. MacDiarmid wanted to repudiate his lyrical quality.

麦克迪阿来德想要放弃他的抒情格调.