scoff
音标：
英音/ skɒf / 美音/ skɑːf /
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
Ms. Zarudnia scoffed at the notion that Ukraine blew up its own dam, and recalled that similar claims were made about attacks in Kherson, where she once lived under occupation.
扎鲁德尼亚女士对乌克兰炸毁自己水坝的说法嗤之以鼻，并回忆说，她曾经居住在占领下的赫尔松，也曾发生过类似的袭击事件。
—New York Times
A decade ago, it was fashionable for opponents of the Conservatives to scoff that Scotland had more pandas than it had Tory MPs.
十年前，保守党的反对者常常嘲笑苏格兰的熊猫比保守党议员还多。
—BBC
White House and Biden campaign officials largely scoffed at this analysis, citing past efforts by Republicans and conservative media to turn caravans of migrants heading toward the border into election-year crises.
白宫和拜登竞选团队的官员大多对这一分析嗤之以鼻，称共和党人和保守派媒体过去曾试图将前往边境的移民大篷车变成选举年的危机。
—New York Times
基本释意：
verb
laugh at with contempt and derision
嘲笑，嘲弄；贪婪地吃，狼吞虎咽
同义词：
barrack,flout,gibe,jeer,flout,jeer,jeering,mockery,scoffing
短释义：
The verb scoff is often followed by the word at (“scoff at the idea, scoff at the statement, scoff at the notion”). The verb can also mean to treat with contempt or to mock. Naysayers scoff at all kinds of theories, and grouchy old men tend to scoff for the heck of it.
轻蔑地嘲笑某人就是嘲笑他们。人们嘲笑许多伟大的发明家，说他们的产品会失败，因为公众对灯泡、个人电脑或宠物石头等东西不感兴趣。
长释义：
The verb scoff is often followed by the word at (“scoff at the idea, scoff at the statement, scoff at the notion”). The verb can also mean to treat with contempt or to mock. Naysayers scoff at all kinds of theories, and grouchy old men tend to scoff for the heck of it.
动词 scoff 后面经常跟有 at 一词（“嘲笑这个想法，嘲笑这个陈述，嘲笑这个概念”）。该动词也可以表示轻蔑地对待或嘲笑。反对者嘲笑各种理论，而脾气暴躁的老人则倾向于嘲笑这些理论。
文学例句：
“There be no time for washing,” he scoffed.
“没时间洗澡，”他嘲笑道。
—Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
Dad would have scoffed at a man wearing hair gel, which is perhaps why I loved it.
爸爸会嘲笑一个涂发胶的男人，这也许就是我喜欢它的原因。
—Educated by Tara Westover
“That gentile school won’t teach you anything you can use,” he scoffed.
“那所非教学校不会教你任何有用的东西，”他嘲笑道。
—The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
词源：
scoff (v.)mid-14c., “jest, make light of something;” mid-15c., “ridicule, mock,” from a noun meaning “contemptuous ridicule” (c. 1300), which is from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse skaup, skop “mockery, ridicule,” Middle Danish skof “jest, mockery;” perhaps from Proto-Germanic *skub-, *skuf- (source also of Old English scop “poet,” Old High German scoph “fiction, sport, jest, derision”), from PIE *skeubh- “to shove” (see shove (v.)). Related: Scoffed; scoffing.Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
scoff (v.)mid-14c.，“开玩笑，轻视某事；” 15世纪中期，“嘲笑，嘲笑”，来自意为“轻蔑的嘲笑”的名词（约1300年），该词源自斯堪的纳维亚语，例如古挪威语 skaup、skop “嘲笑、嘲笑”、中丹麦语 skof “玩笑，嘲讽；”可能源自原始日耳曼语 *skub-、*skuf- （也源自古英语 scop “诗人”、古高地德语 scoph “小说、体育、玩笑、嘲笑”），源自 PIE *skeubh- “推”（参见推） （v.））。相关：嘲笑；嘲笑。相关条目及更多
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