基本词汇
v.贬低;降低
副词: demeaningly 过去式: demeaned 过去分词: demeaned 现在分词: demeaning 第三人称单数: demeans
英英释义
词典解释
网络解释
verb
1. reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
e.g. She tends to put down younger women colleagues
His critics took him down after the lecture
Synonym: take downdegradedisgraceput down
1. 降低(自己)的身份;有辱(自己)的人格
If you demean yourself, you do something which makes people have less respect for you.
e.g. I wasn't going to demean myself by acting like a suspicious wife.
我不会表现得像个疑神疑鬼的妻子一样自贬身价。
2. 贬低;贬损
To demean someone or something means to make people have less respect for them.
demean
e.g. Some groups say that pornography demeans women.
一些团体认为色情作品贬低了女性。
1. demean的解释
1. 贬抑,降低:deliberate 熟思,考虑,有意,存心的 | demean 贬抑,降低 | demerit 短处,过失,缺点
2. 自贬;降低:scooter 踏板车 | demean 自贬;降低 | demeanour 行为, 举止
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3. 行为:demasculinization 男性症丧失 | demean 行为 | dement 使发疯
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4. 举止:deme 阿提卡市区 | demean 举止 | demeanour 行为
经典引文
The Prince Borghese certainly demeans himself like a kind and liberal gentleman.
出自:N. HawthorneCould a girl so far demean herself as to ask for love?
出自:W. BlackThat demeans them into something trivial.
出自:M. Bradbury近义词
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