look down on

英 [lʊk daʊn ɒn]

美 [lʊk daʊn ɑːn]

蔑视; 轻视; 小看

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 蔑视；轻视；小看
  Tolook down onsomeone means to consider that person to be inferior or unimportant, usually when this is not true.
  1. I wasn't successful, so they looked down on me.
     我一无所成，所以他们瞧不起我。

英英释义

verb

• regard with contempt
  1. the new neighbor looks down on us because our house is very modest

双语例句

• He put his hand on the post behind her so that he had her fenced in and could look down on her.
  他把手放在她身后的柱子上，这样就把她围在当中，可以低头看她了。
• Don't look down on the role women can play.
  不要瞧不起妇女的作用。
• Don't look down on people!
  别小看人！
• Everybody look down on their own, but I can not give up!
  每个人都看不起自己，但我不能放弃！
• Sarah: I don't.I look down on you because you're cheap!
  赛拉：我没有，我看不起你是因为你吝啬！
• It's a secret window, and it'll look down on a secret garden.
  这是块秘密的窗户，并且从这向下望是块秘密的花园。
• Take a step forward, or you can't look down on his grave.
  向前走一步，否则你无法往下看到他的坟墓。
• The way people in the West have started to look down on walking is detectable in the language.
  在西方，人们对走路的轻视在语言中也有迹可循。
• We should never look down on manual labor.
  我们决不应该轻视体力劳动。
• You look down on everyone, consider them beneath you.
  你轻视别人，认为他们都不如你。