Old English spurnan "to kick (away), strike against; reject, scorn, despise," from Proto-Germanic *spurnon (cognates: Old Saxon and Old High German spurnan, Old Frisian spurna, Old Norse sporna "to kick, drive away with the feet"), from PIE root *spere- "ankle" (cognates: Middle Dutch spoor "track of an animal," Greek sphyron "ankle," Latin spernere "to reject, spurn," Sanskrit sphurati "kicks," Middle Irish seir "heel"). Related: Spurned; spurning.
例文
1. They spurn all our offers of help.
彼らは私たちが提案したすべての援助を受け入れることを拒否した。
2.As an armyman,I spurn fearlessly at all danger and the enemy.
軍人として、すべての危険と敵は私の目の下にはありません。
3.One of these colleges shall open its doors to me-shall welcome whom now it would spurn .