belittle

英 [bɪˈlɪtl]

美 [bɪˈlɪtl]

v.  贬低; 小看

现在分词：belittling　过去分词：belittled　第三人称单数：belittles　过去式：belittled　

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Collins.1 / BNC.18553 / COCA.15936

牛津词典

verb

• 贬低；小看
  to make sb or the things that sb does seem unimportant
  1. She felt her husband constantly belittled her achievements.
     她觉得她的丈夫时常贬低她的成就。

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

verb

• lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of
  1. don't belittle your colleagues
  Synonym:diminish
• express a negative opinion of
  1. She disparaged her student's efforts
  Synonym:disparagepick at
• cause to seem less serious
  1. Don't belittle his influence
  Synonym:minimizedenigratederogate

双语例句

• 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。
• The Whigs may attempt to belittle our candidates. That is a favorite game of theirs.
  辉格党人可能会试图贬低我们的候选人。这是他们最拿手的把戏。
• And as I say, I don't in any way want to belittle the central badness of that.
  我说过我并不想贬低其主要坏处。
• If you want to belittle the results to come out a particular survey, one way of doing this is that saying the people who are putting this survey is biased.
  如果你想轻视结果，从这个特别的调查中，一种方式是，说做这个调查的人都有偏见。
• I don't meant to belittle my colleagues efforts.
  我无意轻视我同事们的努力。
• I am not meant to degrade or belittle any sight or fact but that were what presented to me.
  我无有意或恶意歧视或“酸小”的企图，但这些就是呈现在我眼前的台湾视与物。
• Those who seek to belittle, invalidate argue, harm or violate are non-supportive types of humans.
  那些寻求贬低、无谓争辩、伤害或孤立的人是非支持类型的人类。
• Parents always are careful about their children's immolation-esteem; they try not to insult or belittle their kids.
  父母常常留心他们孩子的自尊心；他们不欺负或小看他们的小孩。
• Already, both sides are jockeying to belittle the other side.
  双方已经在使出浑身解数贬低对方了。
• The extensive application of procedure justice theory will be in favor of desalting'procedure instrumentalism'and eliminating'regard entity belittle procedure'idea.
  程序正义理论的广泛应用，将有利于“程序工具主义”的淡化和消除我国“重实体轻程序”的观念。