• vt. 拒絕；否定；批判；與…斷絕關系；拒付

來自拉丁語 repudiare,拒絕，否認，離婚，來自 repudium,離婚，斷絕婚姻關系，來自 re-,向 后，離開，*pudium,擊，打，來自 PIE*pu,擊，打，詞源同 pave,compute.也有學者認為該詞 來自 ped,腳，踢，詞源同 foot.

repudiate

repudiate: [16] Repudiate originally meant ‘divorce one’s wife’. It comes from Latin repudiāre ‘divorce, reject’, a derivative of the noun repudium ‘divorce’. It has been suggested that the ultimate source of this may be pēs ‘foot’ (source of English pedal), in which case its underlying meaning would be virtually ‘kick out’.

repudiate (v.)

1540s, "to cast off by divorce," from Latin repudiatus, past participle of repudiare "to cast off, put away, divorce, reject, scorn, disdain," from repudium "divorce, rejection, a putting away, dissolution of marriage," from re- "back, away" (see re-) + pudium, which is probably related to pes/ped- "foot" [Barnhart]. If this is so, the original notion may be of kicking something away, but folk etymology commonly connects it with pudere "cause shame to." Of opinions, conduct, etc., "to refuse to acknowledge," attested from 1824. Earliest in English as an adjective meaning "divorced, rejected, condemned" (mid-15c.). Related: Repudiated; repudiating.

1. to repudiate a suggestion

拒絕一項建議

來自《權威詞典》

2. He used his position to repudiate the charge.

他利用自己的職位來否認指控.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. Leaders urged people to turn out in large numbers to repudiate the violence.

領導們力勸人們集體出面反對暴力。

來自柯林斯例句

4. However, the Citizens opinion does not necessarily repudiate that proposition.

但不管怎樣, "公民"案的意見未必就否認了這一主張.

來自英漢非文學 - 行政法

5. MacDiarmid wanted to repudiate his lyrical quality.

麥克迪阿來德想要放棄他的抒情格調.

來自辭典例句