debunk

英 [ˌdiːˈbʌŋk]

美 [ˌdiːˈbʌŋk]

v.  批判; 驳斥; 揭穿…的真相

现在分词：debunking　第三人称单数：debunks　过去分词：debunked　过去式：debunked　

GRE

BNC.34001 / COCA.17630

牛津词典

verb

• 批判；驳斥；揭穿…的真相
  to show that an idea, a belief, etc. is false; to show that sth is not as good as people think it is
  1. His theories have been debunked by recent research.
     最近的研究揭穿了他的理论的真相。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 指出…的错误;揭穿…的吹嘘（或虚假）
  If youdebunka widely held belief, you show that it is false. If youdebunksomething that is widely admired, you show that it is not as good as people think it is.
  1. Historian Michael Beschloss debunks a few myths.
     历史学家迈克尔·贝施洛斯破除了几个不实传言。
  2. ...the Frenchmen of the enlightenment who debunked the church and the crown.
     揭露教会和王室真相的启蒙运动时期的法国人

英英释义

verb

• expose while ridiculing
  1. The physicist debunked the psychic's claims
  Synonym:expose

双语例句

• You can debunk all these myths and change the way you live and think.
  你可以揭穿所有这些谬见，换一种生活和思考方式。
• People who debunk it and say it will never be mainstream, they're just wrong.
  人们揭穿它，而且说它将会无法是主流，他们仅仅是错误的。
• Professor Gina Rippon said it was time to debunk the myth that gender differences are hard-wired into our brains.
  吉娜·里彭（GinaRippon）教授说，是时候揭穿性别差异在我们大脑根深蒂固的神话了。
• Well, I hate to debunk this belief, but it's just not so.
  我不愿意戳穿这种说法，但是实际上确实不是这样的。
• As long as there are people who cheat in the name of science, it is necessary to have science police to debunk them.
  只要还存在着人们以科学的名义行骗，就有必要让科学警察来揭穿他们。
• Other accounts of Celtic history debunk these stories as myth.
  其他的塞尔特人历史的帐户揭穿这些故事作为神话。
• I wanted to debunk the idea that countries with falling numbers of inhabitants were heading inexorably towards social and fiscal disaster or even extinction.
  我希望驳斥一种观点，即人口数量不断下降的国家正无情地迈向社会和财政灾难，甚至正走向灭亡。
• People have spent a century trying to debunk the idea of G, and they have failed.
  一个世纪以来人们一直在试图揭穿“g”概念，但都以失败告终。
• Not only can the experiment verify the soundness of the hypothesis, IT can also improve or debunk IT.
  而且，实验的过程不但可以检验其正误，往往还可能提升或推翻这个理论。
• A conspiracy theory to debunk a conspiracy theory?
  3.一个阴谋论揭穿另一个阴谋论？