epithets

英 [ˈɛpɪθɛts]

美 [ˈɛpəˌθɛts]

n.  (尤用于褒贬人或事物特征或性质的)表述形容词，修饰语; 别称; 绰号; 诨名
epithet的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 表述形容词，修饰语（用以批评或称赞某人）
  Anepithetis an adjective or short phrase which is used as a way of criticizing or praising someone.
  1. ...the religious issue which led to the epithet 'bible-basher'.
     导致出现“《圣经》的狂热宣讲者”这一称谓的宗教问题

双语例句

• It is found that the most common type of realization for affect and judgment is Nominalization; while a great proportion of appreciation values are realized by Epithets.
  发现情感和评判最常见的实现方式为名物化（Nominalization），而相当一部分的鉴赏是通过修饰语（Epithet）来实现的。
• He insulted me, using rude epithets.
  他用粗话诅咒我。
• This if supposed to induce pleasurable sensations in the elephant, and its effects are reinforced by the use of endearing epithets, such as'ho! My son ', or'ho! My father', or'my mother ', according to the age and sex of the captive.
  据说这能引起象的快感。同时视野象的年龄和性别紧诸如：喂，我的儿子，喂，我的爸爸或喂，我的妈妈之类的亲热称呼来加强效果。
• For this reason we find the poets, who are always addressing themselves to the imagination borrowing more of their epithets from colours than from any other topic.
  正是这个原因，我们可以发现，比起任何题目，诗人致力于想象借鉴最多的还是颜色的描绘。
• In Hallidayan tradition, interpersonal function is mainly realized by mood system, modality system, attitudinal epithets, comment adjuncts, vocatives etc.
  他提出人际功能主要是由语气和情态系统实现的。
• A court is not bound to credit bald assertions, unsupportable conclusions, and opprobrious epithets woven into the fabric of the complaint.
  法庭不必采信由枯燥的断言，没有根据的结论和无理的绰号所编织的诉求。
• Then President Dwight Eisenhower federalized the troops to protect the students, and they went to school through angry mobs shouting racist epithets.
  接着，德怀特。艾森豪威尔下令调动联邦军队来保护学生。学校被咒骂有色人种的人群围住，部队好不容易才穿过人群。
• Epithets like this helped to turn the benighted region of Darfur from an unknown backwater to the most pressing issue on every Western politician's to-solve list.
  不过，这种说法也促使达富尔这片陷入黑暗的土地从不为人知变成了西方政治家们案头最亟待解决的问题。
• In a tone that made the word the foulest and most venomous of epithets.
  用的那声调更使这个字显得又脏又毒了。
• The most vulgar kind of racial epithets.
  最粗俗的种族描述词。