单词详解 | smirk

smirk
音标
美音:/smɜːrk/,英音:/smɜːk/

听听基本释意:

外刊例句
He just smirked at Franklin and slowed down again.
他只是对富兰克林假笑,然后又放慢了速度。
BBC

The NSA also is looking to change its image from a buttoned-up culture with the smirking moniker “No Such Agency” to a more permissive environment.
美国国家安全局还希望将其形象从带有假笑绰号“没有这样的机构”的保守文化转变为更加宽松的环境。
Washington Times

“Did you mishandle classified documents?” a reporter asked the president, who looked straight ahead, smirked and ignored the question.
“你有没有错误处理机密文件?”一位记者问总统,他直视前方,假笑着忽略了这个问题。
Washington Times

基本释意
verb
smile affectedly or derisively
v. 得意地笑,幸灾乐祸地笑,傻笑;假笑;以假笑表示,以傻笑表示

同义词
simper

短释义
A smirk is specific kind of smile, one that suggests self-satisfaction, smugness, or even pleasure at someone else’s unhappiness or misfortune.
傻笑是一种特殊的微笑,表示自我满足、沾沾自喜,甚至是对别人的不幸或不幸感到高兴。

长释义
Smirk can function as either a noun or a verb: “Wipe that smirk off your face. Don’t smirk at me, buddy: you’re gonna get yours next!” A smirk implies you think you’re better than the person you’re smirking at. Ever heard of the term “service with a smile”? Yeah, well, there’s a reason it’s not “service with a smirk.”
Smirk 既可以用作名词也可以用作动词:“擦去你脸上的假笑。别对我假笑,伙计:下一个你会得到你的!”假笑意味着你认为你比你假笑的人更好。听说过“微笑服务”这个词吗?是的,好吧,这不是“微笑服务”的原因。

文学例句
I did as I was told, and she smirked and held up two metal loops tied to her belt.
我照我说的做了,她得意地笑着举起系在腰带上的两个金属环。
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia

He smirked, already knowing it was going to be good, but I didn’t care.
他假笑,已经知道这会很好,但我不在乎。
Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet by Joanne Proulx

The other mother followed her about, looking at Coraline with a smirk always hovering at the edge of her lips.
另一个妈妈跟在她身后,看着卡萝兰,嘴边总是挂着假笑。
Coraline by Neil Gaiman

词源
smirk (v.)Middle English smirken, from Old English smearcian “to smile.” There are no exact cognates in other languages, but probably it is a suffixed form related to smerian “to laugh at, scorn,” which is from Proto-Germanic *smer-, *smar-, variant of PIE *smei- “to smile;” see smile (v.).After c. 1500, smile gradually restricted smirk to the unpleasant sense “smile affectedly; grin in a malicious or smug way,” but in some 18c. glossaries smirk still is simply “to smile.” Related: Smirked; smirking.Related entries & more

下面是词源的翻译(机器翻译比较难翻,参考着看)
smirk (v.)中古英语 smirken,源自古英语 smearcian“微笑”。在其他语言中没有确切的同源词,但可能是与 smerian“笑,蔑视”相关的后缀形式,它来自原始日耳曼语 *smer-,*smar-,PIE *smei- 的变体“微笑” ;”看到微笑(v.)。在c之后。 1500,微笑逐渐将假笑限制为不愉快的感觉“假笑;以恶意或自鸣得意的方式咧嘴笑”,但在某些 18c 中。词汇表 smirk 仍然是简单的“微笑”。相关:傻笑;傻笑。相关条目及更多


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