shrift

来自 shrive 的名词形式，常见于习语 short shrift,短暂的忏悔，引申比喻义不理会，忽视，轻 视等。词性演变比较 scribe,script.

shrift

shrift: see shrive

shrift (n.)

Old English scrift "confession to priest, followed by penance and absolution," verbal noun from scrifan "to impose penance," from an early Germanic borrowing of Latin scribere "to write" (see script (n.)) that produced nouns for "penance, confession" in Old English and Scandinavian (such as Old Norse skrjpt "penance, confession"), but elsewhere in Germanic is used in senses "writing, scripture, alphabet letter;" see shrive. Short shrift originally was the brief time for a condemned criminal to confess before execution (1590s); figurative extension to "little or no consideration" is first attested 1814.

1. The idea has been given short shrift by philosophers.

哲学家们并未怎么关注这一观点。

2. He gave short shrift to criticisms of Government policy.

他毫不关心人们对政府政策所提出的批评.

3. All idle talk wasted our time and we should give It'short shrift.

所有的闲谈浪费我们时间和我们将去给它短暂忏悔时间.

4. These annoying memos will get short shrift from the boss.

老板不会认真对待这些令人讨厌的备忘录的.

5. He is man condemned to a short shrift by his doctor.

他是被医生判定活不了几天的人.