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发音：[dɪsˈkrɛdɪt]
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例句：
- If you discredit what someone says or does, then you reject to accept it as true or accurate.
- U.S. tech companies are stepping up security and efforts to fight disinformation campaigns as online troublemakers including Russian groups try to divide voters and discredit democracy.
- The letter sought to discredit the woman’s accusations, citing an investigation conducted by team lawyer David Donovan that contradicted the claims.
- In fact, its diplomats and official journalists have become combatants in the informational war to legitimize Russia’s claims and discredit international concerns about what appear to be war crimes.
- Climate scientists are an easy target both for political bad actors who want to discredit the science and for activists hoping to reveal the moral compromises made by seemingly ineffective public leaders.
- When researchers led by MIT’s Joy Buolamwini found racial and gender biases in Amazon’s facial recognition algorithms, the company mounted a substantial campaign to discredit those involved, calling their work “misleading” and “false.”
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解释：
- Discredit这个单词为动词，其表示“to refuse to accept something as true or accurate, or to damage the reputation of somebody”这一含义，即“怀疑/使不可信/诋毁/抹黑”，与question/disgrace/degrade/distrust这些单词构成近义词。
- 具体使用场景如下：
- The prosecution discredited the witness by showing that she had lied in the past.（控方通过证明证人过去撒谎来诋毁她。）
—News - AI-generated audio and video deepfakes will erode trust in what we see with our own eyes, leaving us vulnerable both to faked content and to the discrediting of the actual truth by insinuation.（人工智能生成的音频和视频深度伪造将侵蚀我们对亲眼所见的信任，使我们容易受到伪造内容和影射对实际真相的诋毁。）
—Technology - The Oxford researchers said social media was increasingly being co-opted by governments to suppress human rights, discredit political opponents and stifle dissent, including in countries like Azerbaijan, Zimbabwe and Bahrain.（牛津大学的研究人员表示，社交媒体越来越多地被政府用来压制人权，诋毁政治对手并扼杀异议，包括在阿塞拜疆，津巴布韦和巴林等国家。）
—Technology - Those medical records, reflecting that certain athletes had received special medical permission to use banned medications, sought to discredit the athletes in question, none of whom had committed a violation.（这些医疗记录反映，某些运动员已获得使用违禁药物的特别医疗许可，试图诋毁有关运动员，因为他们都没有违反规定。）
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