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

• Your work performance will be under spotlight, she warned students. If you make a mistake, people will belittle your competency, even if you are not that incapable.
  你的工作表现将受到大家的监督，她提醒自己的学生们：如果你犯错，即使你并非无能，人们也会轻视你的能力。
• 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。
• To make Wellington so great is to belittle England.
  把威灵顿捧得那样高便是小看了英格兰。
• I don't like comments that belittle people.
  我不喜欢贬低别人的评论。
• Therefore, it is wrong to belittle armed struggle, revolutionary war, guerrilla war and army work.
  因此，那种轻视武装斗争，轻视革命战争，轻视游击战争，轻视军队工作的观点，是不正确的。
• I don't meant to belittle my colleagues efforts.
  我无意轻视我同事们的努力。
• 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。
• It is the best of a cumbersome process, and it is the worst shame and belittle it.
  最好它是一个繁琐的过程，并且在它最坏它是羞愧和贬低。
• 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。
• Only those above me can praise or belittle me.
  惟凌驾于我者，得称赞或轻蔑我。