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

• 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。
• Comments about your clothes, harsh words about something you said, laughing at your ideas, or belittling something you care about are all behaviors that create tension and discord.
  对你的衣着指指点点，对你说的恶言相对，讥讽你的想法，或者藐视一些你很在意的事情，这些行为都能够带来紧张的、不和谐的气氛。
• 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。
• The ideal Personality in Jin Yong's novels includes upholding righteous but belittling money, being honest and keeping one's promise, being brave and fearless.
  金庸武侠小说中的理想人格涵盖重义轻利、诚实守信、勇敢无畏等内容。
• The tone of voice people used was belittling and self-righteous, the ex-employee writes. I found them snobby, cliquey and frankly, rude.
  人们讲话语气都很不屑一顾、很自以为是，这位前员工写道，我认为他们势力、扎堆，说白了就是很粗鲁。
• 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。
• They sought to make themselves powerful by belittling others and making their employees question their own skills and abilities.
  他们是在通过贬损别人、让员工怀疑自己的能力和水平来让自己感到有力量。
• '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。
• 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。