• n. 嘲笑；愚弄；笑柄
• vt. 嘲笑；嘲弄；贪婪地吃
• vi. 嘲笑；嘲弄；狼吞虎咽

来自古诺斯语 skop,嘲笑，嘲讽，同古英语 scop,游吟诗人，来自 Proto-Germanic*skapiz,形成， 创作，来自 PIE*skep,砍，切，削，词源同 shape.

scoff (v.)

mid-14c., "jest, make light of something;" mid-15c., "make fun of, mock," from the noun meaning "contemptuous ridicule" (c. 1300), from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse skaup, skop "mockery, ridicule," Middle Danish skof "jest, mockery;" perhaps from Proto-Germanic *skub-, *skuf- (cognates: Old English scop "poet," Old High German scoph "fiction, sport, jest, derision"), from PIE *skeubh- "to shove" (see shove (v.)).

1. You may scoff but I honestly feel I'm being cruel only to be kind.

你可能不以为然，但我真的认为我狠下心来只是出于一片好意。

来自柯林斯例句

2. You are not supposed to scoff at religion .

你不该嘲弄宗教。

来自辞典例句

3. Citizens of other cities may scoff at Melbourne's brown river.

其他城市的居民或许会嘲笑墨尔本的褐色泥浆河.

来自百科语句

4. I was no more to her than a morsel of scoff in the fuel - house.

我在她的眼里还不如柴房里的一小堆木屑.

来自辞典例句

5. There was purpose and feeling, banter and scoff playing, mingled , on her mobile lineaments.

在她那变幻无常的外貌上,既有决心,又有感情,既有嘲弄, 又有戏虐和开玩笑的神色.

来自辞典例句