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

• 'Professionals call it elderspeak, the sweetly belittling form of address that has always rankled older people,'the article says.
  文章中说，这种甜蜜但带有贬低色彩的称呼形式总会让年长的人感到恼怒。
• The best way is forgetting him, neglecting and belittling him.
  最好的办法是忘记，忽视和渺视他。
• 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。
• 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。
• Stop belittling yourself& your work is highly valued.
  别小看你自己&你的工作很有价值。
• Under the direct influence of the Chinese traditional values which attach importance to interpersonal relation, but despise relation between man and nature, the characteristics of the traditional educational values are: thinking highly of the tool value of education but belittling its inherent value;
  在重视人与人之间的关系、轻视人与自然之间关系的中国传统价值观的直接影响下，传统的中国教育价值观具有如下特点：重视教育的工具价值，轻视其内在价值；
• 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。
• 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。
• Also, its elevation of social and political dimensions and its belittling of the individual dimension have made contemporary art more biased.
  而且，对社会、政治维度的高扬与对个人维度的贬抑，也导致了当代艺术的片面化。
• 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。