vt. 蔑视;唾弃;轻视地踏或踢 vi. 轻视地拒绝某物 n. 轻视的拒绝;踢开 第三人称单数: spurns 过去式: spurned 过去分词: spurned 现在分词: spurning
中文词源
spurn 拒绝,回绝
来自古英语 spurnan,踢开,词源同 spur,马刺,鞭刺。引申比喻义拒绝,回绝。
spurn 用法和例句
One is that the syndicates will spurn smaller deals because of the cost of the paperwork .
一是,由于案头成本的问题,这些联合组织将摒弃小的投资项目。
China issued its strongest statement yet against a u. s.congressional report urging u. s.business to spurn two chinese telecommunications companies , saying the move could hurt relations between the countries .
Its decision to accept , partially agree to or spurn the push for new economic curbs on tehran will be crucial to washington 's efforts to starve iran 's economy as punishment for the country 's alleged attempts to develop a nuclear weapon .
Martian life might be different from terrestrial life in many ways , but it is hard to conceive of any form of life that would spurn a rich and abundant energy supply in favour of a scarce and less fulfilling one .
They spurn the cultural and geographic stories of their forebears in favour of an approach rooted solely in institutional economics , which studies the impact of political environments on economic outcomes .