I retorted, showing a decided purple witness to refute her.(我回嘴，指著我明擺著的紫斑作為見證來駁倒她。)

His reasons may be food, and no one may have been able to refute them.(他的理由可能是食品，顯然沒有人能夠拒絕它們。)

We can easily refute his argument.(我們可以很容易地駁倒他的論點。)

I do not believe everything originated in India, and I certainly do not refute the Aryan Invasion Theory.(我不相信萬物起源于印度，當然我也反駁不了雅利安人入侵理論。)

And when people don't need to refute counterarguments, there's no point in listening to them.(當人們不需要反駁悖論時，聽從他們還有什么意義呢？)

Yet this study did not necessarily refute Dollo's law.(這項研究并不能充分駁倒道羅法則。)

Future housing data will confirm or refute whether the housing market's pain is starting to fade.(未來的住房行業數據將加強或者駁斥房屋市場的疼痛是否會開始逐漸消失。)

The rumors have greatly upset Fan, forcing him to constantly refute untruths.(這些謠言讓范佳發非常受挫，使得他不斷地駁斥謠言。)

Even if true, this evidence does not refute the contention that editors should bear some of the blame for the reductions, unless editors are merely passive instruments responding to reader interest.(即使這是真的，這一證據也不能反駁編輯應該承擔部分責任的論點，除非編輯只是被動地回應讀者的興趣。)

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.(沉默是最難反駁的論點之一。)

用作動詞(v.)

They refuted his wrong idea.
他們批駁了他的錯誤觀點。We wrote a letter in reply, refuting his erroneous views.
我們回了一封信,駁斥了他的錯誤觀點。The Foreign Minister refuted the assertion that the developing countries are incapable of managing their industries.
外交部長駁斥了發展中國家沒有能力管理本國工業的謬論。

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The man was completely refuted by the people present.
這人被駁得體無完膚。The fallacies were long ago refuted to the hilt.
這些謬論早就被徹底地駁倒了。

用作動詞 (v.)

～+名詞

refute an argument駁斥一個論點refute an old concepts駁倒陳舊的觀點refute a proposal駁斥某項提議refute a statement駁斥一項聲明refute wrong idea駁斥錯誤觀點

～+副詞

refute forcefully有力地駁斥refute openly公開駁斥refute scathingly嚴厲地駁斥refute sternly嚴厲地駁斥

They engaged with and refuted Trotsky's arguments.