insult
verb
noun
ɪnˈsʌlt verb
1 to offend someone by saying or doing something they think is rude 侮辱; 冒犯
Nobody insults my family and gets away with it!
谁也别想侮辱了我的家人之后就这么算了！
I hope Andy won’t be insulted if I don’t come.
如果我不来，希望安迪不要介意。
insult sb by doing sth
They insult us by ignoring our complaints.
他们对我们的投诉不理不睬，这是在侮辱我们。
2
insult sb’s intelligence
to say or do something that suggests you think someone is stupid 侮辱某人的智力
I won’t insult your intelligence by lying. Yes, I told him.
我不想撒谎来侮辱你的智力。 是，我告诉他了。
ˈɪnsʌlt noun
3 a remark or action that is offensive or deliberately rude 辱骂; 侮辱; 冒犯
She was shouting insults at her boyfriend.
她正对她的男朋友高声辱骂。
$200 for all that work? It’s an insult.
干那么多工作才给 200 美元？ 这简直是侮辱。
Their offer was so low I took it as an insult (=thought it was meant to be an insult) .
他们的出价太低，我认为是一种侮辱。
4
be an insult to sb’s intelligence
to offend someone by being too simple or stupid 〔因过于简单或愚蠢而〕是对某人智力的侮辱
Some advertising is an insult to our intelligence.
有些广告对我们的智力是一种侮辱。