affront是什么意思_affront怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

affront: affront: [14] The present-day notion of ‘insulting someone’ has replaced the more direct action of hitting them in the face. Affront comes, via Old French afronter, from Vulgar Latin *affrontāre ‘strike in the face’, which was formed from the Latin phrase ad frontem, literally ‘to the face’.
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affront (v.): early 14c., from Old French afronter "to face, confront, to slap in the face" (13c.), from Late Latin affrontare "to strike against," from Latin ad frontem "to the face," from ad (see ad-) + frons (genitive frontis) "forehead, front" (see front (n.)). Related: Affronted; affronting.
affront (n.): 1590s, from affront (v.).

词态变化

复数 affronts;
第三人称单数 affronts;
过去式 affronted;
过去分词 affronted;
现在分词 affronting;

1. It"s an affront to human dignity to keep someone alive like this.: 如此维持一个人的生命是对人类尊严的冒犯。

4. Leaving during his speech was an affront to the speaker.: 当讲话的人正在讲话时离去,是对他的一种不尊敬.

put an affront upon someone offer an a...

affront death 临死不惧,誓死如归

pocket the affront 忍辱含垢

suffer the affront 遭受凌辱

offer an affront to 当众侮辱…

to put an affront upon sb 当众侮辱(某人)

to offer an affront to sb 当众侮辱(某人)

a deadly affront 莫大的侮辱

put an affront upon 当众侮辱…

put an affront upon sb. v. 当众侮辱某人

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