n. 轻视，蔑视；忽视，不顾；藐视法庭
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contempt of court蔑视法庭；对法院的藐视罪
in contempt of不顾；不把…放在眼里；藐视
词根：contempt
adj.
contemptible 可鄙的；卑劣的；可轻视的
1.Any person who disregards this order will be in contempt of court.
凡漠视本法令者将被判藐视法庭罪。
2.His humour depended on contempt for others.
他的幽默基于对他人的蔑视。
3.Newman wrote, "that I am tempted to define 'journalism' as 'a term of contempt applied by writers who are not read to writers who are.'"
纽曼写道：“我想把‘新闻’定义为‘没有学问的作家’用来对‘有学问的作家’的轻蔑用语。”
4.Politicians seem to be generally held in contempt by ordinary people.
一般百姓似乎普遍看不起从政者。
5.The death knell of a marriage is contempt.
婚姻结束的标志是互相蔑视。
6.It is the hour of great contempt.
那是大轻蔑的时刻。
7.There was a prima facie case that a contempt of court had been committed.
初步看来，这是一起蔑视法庭的案子。
8.They evaded the obtrusive Turk with a sort of contempt and always managed to find the greenest bushes for themselves.
他们轻蔑地避开显眼的“大嘴巴”，并总能设法为自己找到最绿的灌木丛。