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Chinese dictionary
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v.disparagingly call
互联网上,网友们将“第三者”贬称为“小三”。
Internet users disparagingly call "the third party" in a relationship the "little third".
过去,人们贬称彗星为“扫帚星”。
People used to disparage a comet as "a disaster star".
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n.derogatory name
“极客”,一开始是对电脑黑客的贬称。
“Geek” was at first a derogatory term used by the average person to mean a hacker.
他们把命题贬称为琐碎或只是咬文嚼字罢了。
They stigmatize these propositions as "trifling" or "merely verbal".