scoff是什么意思

双语用例

• I can remember people scoffing at the idea that we would find teachers in this way, but we have found 5,000.

• The suggestion that the rich will grow rich and the poor will grow poorer is scoffed at.

• Anyone who scoffs and says that this is an irrelevance has only to speak to people who come from afar.

• Every time any reference is made to the years between 1945 and 1951 there are scoffs and sneers from the benches opposite.

• They are attacking these building societies and scoffing at them.

• One hundred pounds has been scoffed at this afternoon, but it is not a very small sum.

• The creation of happiness for the greatest number is an ideal that he followed, and it is not to be scoffed at.

• We have a remedy which is much scoffed at.