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insult verb | noun
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in·sult / In5sQlt ; In5sQlt /verb T
1. to offend someone by saying or doing something they think is rude侮辱; 冒犯:
Nobody insults my family and gets away with it!谁也别想侮辱了我的家人之后就这么算了!
I hope Andy won't be insulted if I don't come.如果我不来,希望安迪不要介意。
insult sb by doing sth
They insult us by ignoring our complaints.他们对我们的投诉不理不睬,这是在侮辱我们。
2. insult sb's intelligence to say or do something that suggests you think someone is stupid侮辱某人的智力:
I won't insult your intelligence by lying. Yes, I told him.我不想撒谎来侮辱你的智力。 是,我告诉他了。

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in·sult / 5InsQlt ; 5InsQlt /noun C
1. a remark or action that is offensive or deliberately rude辱骂; 侮辱; 冒犯:
She was shouting insults at her boyfriend.她正对她的男朋友高声辱骂。
$200 for all that work? It's an insult.干那么多工作才给 200 美元? 这简直是侮辱。
Their offer was so low I took it as an insult (=thought it was meant to be an insult) .他们的出价太低,我认为是一种侮辱。
2. be an insult to sb's intelligence to offend someone by being too simple or stupid〔因过于简单或愚蠢而〕是对某人智力的侮辱:
Some advertising is an insult to our intelligence.有些广告对我们的智力是一种侮辱。
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