rebuff

noun

1. 粗暴回绝；生硬的拒绝
   an unkind refusal of a friendly offer, request or suggestion
   1. Her offer of help was met with a sharp rebuff.
      她主动帮忙，却遭到断然拒绝。

1. VERB 拒绝;回绝
   If you rebuff someone or rebuff a suggestion that they make, you refuse to do what they suggest.
   1. He wanted sex with Julie but she rebuffed him...
      他想和朱莉上床但被她拒绝了。
   2. His proposals have already been rebuffed by the Prime Minister.
      他的提议已经被首相否决了。
   3. Rebuff is also a noun.
      
   4. The results of the poll dealt a humiliating rebuff to Mr Jones.
      民意调查的结果对琼斯先生很不利，让他颜面尽失。

1. He would rebuff enquiries in such a way as to preclude any further discussion.
   他会断然拒绝询问，使得无法进行进一步的讨论。
2. His proposals have already been rebuffed by the Prime Minister.
   他的提议已经被首相否决了。
3. I tried to calm him down, but got a rebuff for my pains.
   我劝他别生气，反被他抢白了一顿。
4. Facts are the most powerful rebuff to rumourmongers.
   事实是对造谣者最有力的回答。
5. On core principles he was unyielding, which is why he could rebuff offers of unconditional release, reminding the Apartheid regime that prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
   他在核心原则上坚定不移，正是因为这样，他能够断然拒绝无条件释放的伎俩，提醒种族隔离政权别忘了囚犯无权签署合同。
6. Wherever possible they dealt Wanshington's high-handed policy a rebuff.
   在可能情形下，他们总把华盛顿的高压政策顶回去。
7. No wonder their currently buoyant board of directors, who believe that they can even surpass Real financially next season, can rebuff potential investors.
   难怪他们现任董事会春风得意的董事们，这些认为俱乐部下个赛季在经济上有望超越皇马的董事们，会断然拒绝那些潜在的收购者。
8. The disciples laughed, taking this to be a well-deserved rebuff.
   弟子们笑了，很欣赏这个巧妙的回应。
9. Good news now arrived from Tobruk, where the audacious and persistent enemy met their first definite rebuff.
   这时，从托卜鲁克传来了好消息，大胆顽强的敌人初次遭到了明显的挫折。
10. If it's dispelled again, rebuff again.
    如果它仍然被驱散掉了，那再给自己加一遍。
11. And she could understand his shrewd caginess, so like her own, his obstinate pride that kept him from admitting his love for fear of a rebuff.
    她能够了解他的精明狡诈&跟她自己的那么相像，以及他因为生怕碰壁而不肯承认自己的爱那样一种顽固的自尊心。
12. There, a prickly instability, characteristic of his childhood, re-emerged, perhaps brought on by a rebuff from his landlady's daughter.
    在那里，动荡不安的处境和童年独特的性格一一重现，或许这些是女房东女儿的回绝所引起的。
13. Her kindness to him was met with a cruel rebuff.
    她一片好心却遭到他冷酷的拒绝。
14. Her offer of help was met with a sharp rebuff.
    她主动帮忙，却遭到断然拒绝。
15. They may rebuff you, but most people will be touched and grateful – you'll get to make their day a little bit easier, which will put a dash of joy into yours.
    他们可能会回绝你，但是很多人会很受感动并心存感激&你的帮助能让他们过得容易点，也能使你的内心感到愉悦。
16. Her rebuff thoroughly deflated him.
    她的拒绝使他的骄气大挫。
17. She realised that she was a novice, and felt as if a rebuff were certain.
    她意识到自己是个新手，非遭到断然回绝不可。
18. In comments that some may see as an implicit rebuff to the Fed, he said that the dislocations in the financial system leading to an economic slowdown were ones that banks, not monetary policymakers, must correct.
    他表示，金融系统中的错位问题导致了经济放缓，银行必须对此进行矫正，这不是货币政策制定者的工作。一些人可能会将他的此番言论看成是一次针对美联储的含蓄批评。
19. She suffered a rebuff from her manager when she raised the matter.
    她向经理提出这个问题时碰了一鼻子灰。
20. If you never fear a rebuff you will never have one.
    如果你从不怕遭到拒绝，你就绝不会遭到拒绝。
21. She saw in him the peculiar tight rebuff against anyone of the lower classes who might be really climbing up, which she knew was characteristic of his breed.
    她看见了他对较下阶级的稍有上升希望的人所生的那种狭窄的反感，她知道这是他那一类人的特性。
22. She wanted to invited the general manager to her wedding ceremony, but got a rebuff.
    例如；她本来是想去邀请总经理参加自己的婚礼的，没想到一片好心却碰了一鼻子灰。
23. The unexpected rebuff can feel confusing and suck the positive energy out of the air.
    这种意料不到的拒绝会让我们迷茫；让气氛的积极消失。
24. I wondered whether the Colonel would take this rebuff.
    我不知道上校会不会容忍我不服从命令。
25. His team did, however, find that basophils help rebuff a parasite's second attack, confirming that the cells aid immune memory.
    但他的团队确实发现嗜碱性细胞击退了一种寄生虫的二次攻击，证实了这种细胞辅助免疫记忆的功能。
26. Fleur, still smarting from Jon's rebuff, established a country rest home for working girls.
    遭到乔恩拒绝而仍感痛苦的弗勒，也为女工们设立了一个乡音休息所。
27. To rebuff or reject with rudeness, coldness, or denial.
    断然拒绝；粗鲁、冷漠地拒绝；否定。
28. Meet with a rebuff at work, having problems, serious criticism from their superiors about it, asked to: our company is still doing things in life?
    工作中碰钉子，碰到问题，上司过来严肃地批评一番，质问到：我们在公司是做事还是做人？！
29. Rude or unfriendly rejection of an offer, etc; rebuff
    （对提议等，粗暴或无礼的）拒绝；回绝；冷落

  deny decline rebuff refuse reject【导航词义：拒绝】

  deny v. 〈正式〉拒绝，不允许

〔辨析〕指不允许某人拥有某物或做某事。

  decline v. 〈正式〉拒绝

〔辨析〕指婉言谢绝他人的帮助、邀请等。

  rebuff v. 〈正式〉回绝，断然拒绝

〔辨析〕指很不友好地拒绝别人善意的建议或帮助。

  refuse v. 拒绝，回绝

〔辨析〕普通用词，指拒绝做某事或接受别人所给之物，作后者解时常可与turn down 换用。

  reject v. 拒绝

〔辨析〕指拒绝接受或考虑某事，或指由于不能让人满意而不接受、不录取等。

noun

1. a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)

   Synonym:    slight

2. an instance of driving away or warding off

   Synonym:    snubrepulse

verb

1. reject outright and bluntly
   1. She snubbed his proposal

   Synonym:    snubrepel

2. force or drive back
   1. repel the attacker
   2. fight off the onslaught
   3. rebuff the attack

   Synonym:    repelrepulsefight offdrive back