affront
1.VERB 动词侮辱;冒犯 If something affronts you, you feel insulted and hurt because of it.
【语法信息】:V n
【STYLE标签】:FORMAL 正式
...an incident which particularly affronted Kasparov.
让卡斯帕罗夫感到特别受辱的一件事
affronted
He pretended to be affronted, but inwardly he was pleased...
他假装受到了冒犯,但其实内心很高兴。
Reggie reacted with the same affronted horror Midge had felt.
雷吉的反应是又羞愤又害怕,和米奇的感觉一样。
2.N-COUNT 可数名词侮辱;冒犯 If something is an affront to you, it is an obvious insult to you.
【搭配模式】:usu sing
It's an affront to human dignity to keep someone alive like this...
如此维持一个人的生命是对人类尊严的冒犯。
She has taken my enquiry as a personal affront.
她将我的询问当成了人身侮辱。
