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

• 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。
• 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。
• The main problems existing in fixed assets management of scientific research institutes are valuing purchase but belittling management and low utilization ratio.
  科研单位固定资产管理存在的主要问题是：重购置轻管理，利用率低。
• 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；
• The best way is forgetting him, neglecting and belittling him.
  最好的办法是忘记，忽视和渺视他。
• You are really attacking the person and belittling them, Mr. Post says. They see you as a bully, and don't want to interact with you.
  你这样做真的是在打击和贬低别人，他们会觉得你盛气凌人，不想跟你来往。
• Rao argues against an "inbred academic system", while Cui accuses him of" belittling plant anatomy ".
  饶毅反对“一种世袭的学术系统”，而崔克明指控他“贬低植物形态解剖学”。
• 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。
• I shied away from the subject because it felt belittling to my efforts to admit that some ─ a lot?
  我回避这个问题，是因为这感觉就像贬低我的努力，承认我的某些&许多？
• 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。