shrift

英 [?r?ft] 美[?r?ft]

暢通詞匯

shrift 懺悔，悔罪，臨終懺悔

來自 shrive 的名詞形式，常見于習(xí)語 short shrift,短暫的懺悔，引申比喻義不理會，忽視，輕視等。詞性演變比較 scribe,script.

shrift: shrift: see shrive
shrift (n.): Old English scrift "confession to priest, followed by penance and absolution," verbal noun from scrifan "to impose penance," from an early Germanic borrowing of Latin scribere "to write" (see script (n.)) that produced nouns for "penance, confession" in Old English and Scandinavian (such as Old Norse skrjpt "penance, confession"), but elsewhere in Germanic is used in senses "writing, scripture, alphabet letter;" see shrive. Short shrift originally was the brief time for a condemned criminal to confess before execution (1590s); figurative extension to "little or no consideration" is first attested 1814.

1. The idea has been given short shrift by philosophers.: 哲學(xué)家們并未怎么關(guān)注這一觀點(diǎn)。

2. He gave short shrift to criticisms of Government policy.: 他毫不關(guān)心人們對政府政策所提出的批評.

3. All idle talk wasted our time and we should give It'short shrift.: 所有的閑談浪費(fèi)我們時(shí)間和我們將去給它短暫懺悔時(shí)間.

4. These annoying memos will get short shrift from the boss.: 老板不會認(rèn)真對待這些令人討厭的備忘錄的.

5. He is man condemned to a short shrift by his doctor.: 他是被醫(yī)生判定活不了幾天的人.