contemptuous是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 轻视的，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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Instinctively each felt her contemptuous mockery of the human being in himself, or herself.
-- Mostly her heart was closed in this hidden, unconscious strain of contemptuous ridicule.
-- Gudrun entered the taxi, with the deliberate cold movement of a woman who is well-dressed and contemptuous in her soul.
-- It woke a certain keen, half contemptuous pity, tenderness for him: she was so ruthless.
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