deprecate

英 ['depr?ke?t] 美['d?pr?ket]

TEM8GRE擴(kuò)展詞匯

第三人稱單數(shù):?deprecates;過去式:?deprecated;過去分詞:?deprecated;現(xiàn)在分詞:?deprecating;副詞:?deprecatingly;形容詞:?deprecating;

1. pray => deprecate.
2. prec- (諧音“pray客”)-----祈禱客----祈禱、祈求的人。

deprecate 強(qiáng)烈反對

de-, 向下，強(qiáng)調(diào)。-prec, 祈禱，詞源同precatory, imprecate, pray. 原義為祈禱惡魔離開，強(qiáng)烈的憎惡，后詞義通用化，強(qiáng)烈反對。

deprecate: deprecate: see pray
deprecate (v.): 1620s, "to pray against or for deliverance from," from Latin deprecatus, past participle of deprecari "to pray (something) away" (see deprecation). Meaning "to express disapproval" is from 1640s. Related: Deprecated, deprecating.

1. As a lawyer, I would deprecate any sort of legal control on gene therapy at this stage.: 作為律師，我會(huì)反對在現(xiàn)階段對基因療法進(jìn)行任何形式的法律管制。

2. Some pacifists and all militarists deprecate social and political conflicts.: 某些和平主義者和一切軍國主義者都反對社會(huì)性和政治性的斗爭.

3. I strongly deprecate the use of violence by the students.: 我強(qiáng)烈反對學(xué)生們使用暴力.

4. Some of these, in turn , deprecate the term human resources as useless.: 因此,其中也有些認(rèn)為人力資源這個(gè)詞語毫無用處.

5. The fashion now is to deprecate the positive contributions of Keynesian economics.: 否認(rèn)凱恩斯主義經(jīng)濟(jì)理論的積極貢獻(xiàn)已成為當(dāng)前的一種時(shí)尚.