despise是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 轻视， 蔑视，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I despise your judgement utterly for what you have been say-ing.
-- You must yourselves have heard whether these things are true or no; therefore when I say well despise not my words as though I were a coward or of ignoble birth.
-- I have held you so far as a man of more understanding than any in all Lycia, but now I despise you for saying that I am afraid of Ajax.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the jackal Tabaqui, the Dish-licker and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about mak-ing mischief, and telling tales, and eating rags and pieces of leather from the village rubbish-heaps.
-- The monkeys called the place their city, and pretend-ed to despise the Jungle-People because they lived in the forest.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Won't it mean anything to you to know that people loathe and despise you?"
-- He had omitted nothing that could make his wife despise him.
-- "You know that I hate and despise you."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sailor was wrong to despise the proceeding.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Of course, the only thing to do is to despise them all just all," she said.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We laughed outright at the petted things; we did despise them!When would you catch me wishing to have what Catherine wanted?
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