| 单词 | disobey |
| 释义 | disobey (once / 1231 pages) v When you don't follow the rules — especially when they come from a teacher, parent, boss or other authority figure — you disobey. A first-grader disobeys his teacher when he can't help running in the halls of the school, and a dog will disobey your shouted commands if you haven't trained her very well. When you obey someone's rules, you follow them strictly. The verb disobey combines the Latin obedire, "serve, pay attention to, or listen," with dis, which here means "not." The original Latin version of disobey, inobedire, used in rather than dis. WORD FAMILYdisobey: disobeyed, disobeying, disobeys+/obey: disobey, obeyed, obeying, obeys USAGE EXAMPLESIts rabbi, Zalman Melamed, wrote a tract calling on soldiers serving in the Israel Defense Forces to disobey orders to evacuate “Jewish settlements in Israel.” Wall Street Journal(Dec 27, 2016) What’s interesting to me is how the images are being used: are the police abusing their power, or is this woman disobeying the law? The Guardian(Dec 18, 2016) Smith told investigators Gunn disobeyed instructions and fought with him. Seattle Times(Dec 05, 2016) v refuse to go along with; refuse to follow; be disobedient He disobeyed his supervisor and was fired Ant|Hypo|Hyper obey be obedient to sit in participate in an act of civil disobedience counteract, countermine, sabotage, subvert, undermine, weakendestroy property or hinder normal operations balk, baulk, jib, resistrefuse to comply derailcause to run off the tracks decline, refuse show unwillingness towards |
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