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

• You really shouldn't look down on people like this.
  你不该这么小看人。
• 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。
• From the top of the bus you could look down on people below.
  从公共汽车的顶上，你可以俯视下面的人。
• His two kids look down on me, I am Vietnamese, so what?
  他的两个小孩看不起我，我是越南人又怎麽样？
• You despise and look down on people.
  你瞧不起其他人。
• What irritates me most is the way she seems to look down on me.
  最使我恼怒的是她似乎看不起我。
• 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！
• Squirrels and thrushes can only look down on us and smile.
  松鼠和画眉只能对迟钝的我们嗤之以鼻，微微一笑。
• 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。