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Belittle Person Feel Makes Candidate Office 英 Bɪ'Lɪtl] 美

英语单词 belittle
英美音标 英 [bɪ'lɪtl] 美 [bɪ'lɪtl]
中文释义 vt.轻视;贬低;使相形见小
英语例句 (1) He will no longer belittle me or interfere with my research.
(2) But this is not to belittle the importance of ritualistic worship.
(3) The Whigs may attempt to belittle our candidates.
中文例句 (1) 他不再将轻视我或干涉我的研究。
(2) 但这并不是轻视了仪式功修的重要性。
(3) 辉格党人可能会试图贬低我们的候选人。
vocabulary简明 To belittle means to put down, or to make another person feel as though they aren't important. Saying mean things about another person literally makes them feel "little."
vocabulary扩展 To belittle someone is a cruel way of making someone else seem less important than yourself. A candidate for office might belittle his opponent by pointing out during a press conference that his fellow candidate has an inferior intellect. Belittling doesn't have to come in the form of verbal abuse. A manager who forces his administrative assistant to scrub his office floor with a toothbrush belittles her as well.
柯林斯解释
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[VERB 动词]轻视;贬抑;小看 If you belittle someone or something, you say or imply that they are unimportant or not very good.
  [V n]
  • We mustn't belittle her outstanding achievement...

    我们一定不能小瞧了她所取得的杰出成就。

  • It makes no sense to belittle the enormity of the disaster.

    没有理由低估这场灾难的严重性。

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