讥笑

• 拼音: jī xiào
• 汉字拆解: 讥 = 讠+ 几 (speech radical + small table/nearly, to criticise and belittle through words); 笑 = 竹 + 夭 (bamboo/flexibility + young/bent, the bent-over posture of laughing)

含义

To sneer at; to mock; to ridicule; to laugh at someone with contempt and derision.

讥笑 combines disparagement (讥 — to criticise/mock with words) with laughter (笑 — to laugh), describing the act of laughing at someone scornfully. It is more malicious than 嘲笑 (jokingly tease) or 开玩笑 (a joke) and implies a degree of contempt or superiority. Patterns: 遭受讥笑 (to be subjected to mockery), 讥笑对方的失败 (to mock the other's failure), 冷眼讥笑 (to mock coldly). Used to describe both verbal mockery and the cold, scornful smile that accompanies it.

例句

1. 那个曾被同学讥笑为学习差、没有前途的孩子，经过十余年的不懈努力，最终成为行业内公认的权威专家，用实际行动给出了最有力的回应。
2. 科学界起初对他的新理论报以讥笑和质疑，认为它违背共识，但多年后实验验证了他的突破。
3. 旁观者的讥笑不仅没有打倒她，反而成为她奋力前行的强大动力，让她下定决心用最终的成功来证明所有怀疑者的错误。

用法指南

语境: social, psychology, narrative, interpersonal

语气: negative

正确说法

• 许多伟大创新者生前都遭过同代人的讥笑，他们超前的思想常被斥为异端，但时间证明他们推动了进步。(Many great innovators were ridiculed by their contemporaries in their lifetimes; their ahead-of-time ideas were often denounced as heresy, but time proved that they drove progress.)
• 在竞争激烈的职场里，对他人失败报以讥笑既缺乏同理心，也很短视，因为谁都可能陷入困境。(In a competitive workplace, ridiculing others' failures is both lacking in empathy and short-sighted, because anyone can end up in trouble.)

错误说法

• 讥笑 for gentle, affectionate teasing between friends — use 开玩笑 for joking or 打趣 for gentle teasing; 讥笑 specifically implies contempt and mockery, not light-hearted fun

起源与历史

讥 (to criticise/mock with words) + 笑 (to laugh/smile) — 讥 uses 讠(speech radical) indicating verbal mockery; 笑 adds the element of laughter; together: to mock someone with contemptuous laughter

文化背景

世代: All ages

社会背景: Universal