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shun

/shuhn/US // ʃʌn //UK // (ʃʌn) //

阴阳师,阴柔,阴,阴阳

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    shunned, shun·ning.

    • : to keep away from, from motives of dislike, caution, etc.; take pains to avoid.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbavoid, ignore
Forms: shunned, shunning, shuns

Examples

  • It’s not illegal in the Kingdom anymore, but it’s still shunned and disgraced by the society as a whole, and even as a middle schooler I understood that.

  • Stridently independent, she shunned the industry in the face of systemic apathy toward a blind woman whose music defied all norms of the time.

  • She had to sort through precisely what to call herself because she didn’t want to offend someone by shunning a description or offend someone else by claiming a particular biography that wasn’t hers.

  • Its own technical staff continues to pressure the company to embrace environmental policies it has so far shunned.

  • Before you shun him, Miss Manners recommends that you proceed as though it were the latter.

  • The dish was a massive hit, and Shun Lee Palace subsequently received a four-star review in The New York Times.

  • Around that time, in 1972, Chinese-American restaurateur Michael Tong opened Shun Lee Palace on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

  • She was personally against abortion, but she did not shun those who were pro-choice.

  • He was a rarity in a country where the superrich shun publicity or pretend they are like everyone else.

  • Batista also is a rarity in a country where the superrich shun publicity or pretend they are like everyone else.

  • But in saying life, it must not be thought that gaiety is implied; none could shun that as Lady Hartledon now seemed to shun it.

  • I went to live with a very ungodly family, but that sense of right and wrong within me made me shun and despise their evil ways.

  • Teach your children, according to their ability to comprehend, all that they should know to be able to shun evil.

  • There was a spell in the shyness, which made her avoid and shun all admiring approaches to acquaintance.

  • Yaou's son Shun was an equally remarkable man, wise and accomplished, who lived only to advance the happiness of his subjects.