Affront

(v. t.) To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face.

(v. t.) To face in defiance; to confront; as, to affront death; hence, to meet in hostile encounter.

(v. t.) To offend by some manifestation of disrespect; to insult to the face by demeanor or language; to treat with marked incivility.

(n.) An encounter either friendly or hostile.

(n.) Contemptuous or rude treatment which excites or justifies resentment; marked disrespect; a purposed indignity; insult.

(n.) An offense to one's self-respect; shame.

布雷特整理

• Ten thousand unthinkably atrocious deaths could not atone for the affront that you have put upon me. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• But I felt it quite an affront to be supposed proud, and said I only wanted to be asked. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Edith was in the mood to think that any pleasure enjoyed away from her was a tacit affront, or at best a proof of indifference. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• And because I have nobody but you to look to, you think you are to make me do, or not do, everything you please, and are to put any affront upon me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• This was an assumption of a sort of intimacy that irritated Gudrun almost like an affront. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Then, that,' said the man with the camp-stool, 'is an affront to Doctor Slammer, and a sufficient reason for proceeding immediately. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• When Terkoz saw Tarzan approaching without his arrows, he continued to belabor the poor woman in a studied effort to affront his hated chieftain. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• My father had once been a favourite of hers, I believe; but she was mortally affronted by his marriage, on the ground that my mother was 'a wax doll'. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• It will not do, whispered Frank to Emma; they are most of them affronted. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Never, madam, cried he, affronted in his turn: never, I assure you. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• She stepped back, affronted. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• For they affronted him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• You are not going to be _missish_, I hope, and pretend to be affronted at an idle report. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• He is made of venomous insults and affronts, from the crown of his head to the sole of his foot. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Spites, affronts, offences giv' and took, deadly aggrawations, such like,' answered Riderhood. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Haven't you yourself declared that the fellow has heaped provocations, insults, and affronts on you, or something to that effect? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• As if he felt himself full to the throat with affronting sentiments. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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