belittling

英 [bɪˈlɪtlɪŋ]

美 [bɪˈlɪtlɪŋ]

v.  贬低; 小看
belittle的现在分词

现在分词：belittling　

COCA.43270

柯林斯词典

• VERB 轻视；贬抑；小看
  If youbelittlesomeone or something, you say or imply that they are unimportant or not very good.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

英英释义

noun

• the act of belittling
• a belittling comment
  Synonym:denigration

adj

• tending to diminish or disparage
  1. belittling comments
  2. managed a deprecating smile at the compliment
  3. deprecatory remarks about the book
  4. a slighting remark
  Synonym:deprecatingdeprecativedeprecatorydepreciativedepreciatoryslighting

双语例句

• A distant or belittling father, an emotionally smothering or needy mother, and in the center a boy with nobody to guide him on the path to manhood.
  一个感情上几乎窒息的母亲。中间就是我，没有人指导我如何做男人。
• I shied away from the subject because it felt belittling to my efforts to admit that some ─ a lot?
  我回避这个问题，是因为这感觉就像贬低我的努力，承认我的某些&许多？
• "Misogyny" means the sentiment or the topic of distorting and belittling the female's image, pushing all faults to the female in literature.
  厌女症是指文学中歪曲、贬低女性的形象，把一切罪过都推到女性头上的情绪或主题。
• Misleadings: opposition between Classical Chinese and Vernacular, negating classicism, opposing the applying of allusion and antithesis, belittling Chinese Language and Characters more totally.
  误导：文白对立，否定古典，反对用典和对仗，更全面贬低中国语言文字。
• Others, still smarting from years of belittling messages, will unconsciously tend to mirror others in the same way out of pattern repetition or to perpetuate a destructive pecking order.
  其它人，仍然在感受着多年的被缩小的刺痛，将会无意识地以同样的方式，出于重复的模式来镜射他人，或者重复地持久地使用破坏性的顺序。
• After entering the modern society, this kind of story that ordinary masses told is while affirming women's intelligence and laborer's own value, there is inclination of criticizing or belittling Confucius.
  进入现代社会后，普通群众讲述的该类故事则在肯定女性智慧和劳动者自身价值的同时，还有了批评或贬抑孔子的倾向。
• Stop belittling yourself& your work is highly valued.
  别小看你自己&你的工作很有价值。
• This plan has also many shortcomings and limitations such as the prominent national defense industry, the policy belittling basic research, more cost paid by the agriculture pays and so on.
  这次科技规划在取得巨大成功的同时，也有突出国防重工业、轻视基础研究、农业付出沉重代价等局限性。
• The tone of voice people used was belittling and self-righteous, the ex-employee writes. I found them snobby, cliquey and frankly, rude.
  人们讲话语气都很不屑一顾、很自以为是，这位前员工写道，我认为他们势力、扎堆，说白了就是很粗鲁。
• It brought the brand-new enlightenment meaning for cultural research and peoples culture research changed people's view which is either praise or belittling on the people's culture for a long time make people review people's culture with the new visual angle and define people's culture again.
  它给文化研究包括大众文化研究带来了崭新的启示意义，改变了人们长期以来对大众文化要么褒扬要么贬抑的看法，使得人们以新的视角去反思大众文化，重新界定大众文化。