FLOUT - Translation from English into Chinese

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flout [flaʊt] VB trans

flout: 轻视 qīngshì

flout: 蔑视 mièshì

Present
I	flout
you	flout
he/she/it	flouts
we	flout
you	flout
they	flout

Past
I	flouted
you	flouted
he/she/it	flouted
we	flouted
you	flouted
they	flouted

Present Perfect
I	have	flouted
you	have	flouted
he/she/it	has	flouted
we	have	flouted
you	have	flouted
they	have	flouted

Past Perfect
I	had	flouted
you	had	flouted
he/she/it	had	flouted
we	had	flouted
you	had	flouted
they	had	flouted

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However, it is possible to flout a maxim intentionally or unconsciously and thereby convey a different meaning than what is literally spoken.

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Each according to their characters, they flout society's strictures and begin an adulterous affair.

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An in-your-face spectacle, it deliberately presented behavior designed to flout conventional, heterosexual norms.

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This was a manifold, therapeutic, magical, propitiatory, alchemic role which flouted the strict biblical and rabbinic prohibitions on the consumption of blood....

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In 2007 prosecutors filed charges against 160 construction companies for flouting the summer ban on labourers working outdoors during the hottest part of the day.

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