每日一词 192 dismiss

基础篇

dismiss: to refuse to consider someone's idea, opinion, etc, because you think it's not serious, true or important. 

Many would dismiss student athletes as all brawn and no brain. [to be physically strong but not very intelligent.] 很多人觉得运动员学生是头脑简单，四肢发达。

进阶篇：

dismiss 是及物动词，有多个意思，比如“解雇、解散”等，我们今天来学习它表示“对...不予考虑”的意思。这个用法很常见。dismiss 常见的用法诗后面直接接宾语，另一常见的用法是dismiss sth as sth,其中第二sth可以是名词也可以是形容词，表示动作发出者的具体态度。

他提出的建议被经历视为是不切实际的。

His proposal was dismissed by the manager as unrealistic. 

很多市民觉得这座巨大的雕像纯粹是面子工程（炫耀性工程）：

This gargantuan statue is widely dismissed as a vanity project. 

This enormous statue is widely dismissed as conspicuous. 

《经济学人》用例：

【航空航天业】Elon Musk, SpaceX's boss, initially dismissed astronomer's concerns, tweeting as the weekend that there were "already 4,900 satellites in orbit, which people notice ~0% of the time. Starlink won't be seen by anyone unless looking very carefully & will have ~0% impact on advancements in astronomy."

【印度政治】Some of Mr Modi's ministers have done incremental work to address pollution, but others dismiss complaints as exaggerated. 

【欧洲政治】European Parliament elections are sometimes dismissed as a mere opinion poll, since the body has much less power than domestic legislatures do. 

应用篇：

1）翻译：他的承诺被视为空谈。

His promises are dismissed as empty talk/ false. 

2) 造句：人有时候会不大愿意相信那些和他们价值观不合的消息。

Sometimes people tend to dismiss the real news that are inconsistent with their ideologies.