countenance ～を支持する、大目に見る
If we want to live in a salubrious milieu, we can not countenance the noisome fumes that are deleterious to health.
didactic 教訓的な
platitude 決まり文句、平凡な言葉
construe ～を解釈する
effrontery 厚かましさ
Do you have the effrontery to take that supercilious and facetious attitude toward something as sinister as this?
＊supercilious ばかにした、横柄な ＊facetious ふざけた
nonentity 取るに足りない人
He was a precocious youngster, but he soon reached the nadir of his career, lost all of his prestige, and became a nonentity.
surmise ～を推測する
mien 物腰、態度
She had a mien of humility, but it was only a facade.
jocose こっけいな
pensive 物思いに沈んだ
The fervid marriage proposal made the shy girl pensive.
deride あざける、ばかにする
wince ひるむ、たじろぐ
The hostile rebuke made the usually phlegmatic boy wince.