Refute

(verb.) prove to be false or incorrect.

(verb.) overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof; 'The speaker refuted his opponent's arguments'.

布鲁诺录入

• Few have been able to withstand the seeming evidence of this argument; and yet nothing in the world is more easy than to refute it. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• It is impossible to refute a system, which has never yet been explained. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• My present business then must be to defend the definitions, and refute the demonstrations. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Who wants a system on the basis of the four elements, or a book to refute Paracelsus? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• That was evidence which one could not well refute. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• On one occasion a correspondent put in my mouth the very charge I had so often refuted--of disloyalty. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• And public opinion, on this occasion, is not easily refuted. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Yet the chief of these reasons may perhaps be refuted by the imperfections of the performance. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The objection that popular government cannot be conducted without the two party system is, I believe, refuted by the experience of Europe. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• What happens in the course of action neither confirms, refutes, nor alters it. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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