deigned

英 [deɪnd]

美 [deɪnd]

v.  屈尊，俯就，降低身份(做某事)
deign的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 屈尊;俯就;降低身份
  If you say that someonedeignedto do something, you are expressing your disapproval of the fact that they did it unwillingly, because they thought they were too important to do it.
  1. At last, Harper deigned to speak...
     哈珀终于赏脸开了口。
  2. Weatherby didn't deign to reply.
     韦瑟比不屑回答。

双语例句

• At least Mr Putin had deigned to see the prime minister, and British officials think Mr Putin will resume his old post of president next year.
  至少，普金屈尊接见了卡梅伦首相。而且英国官员认为普京将在明年重新竞选他以前的职位&总统。
• Neither deigned to look up from their game until Haldon drew up a chair between them and said," My dwarf plays better cyvasse than both of you combined. "
  两人没人肯从游戏中抬头看一眼知道哈尔顿拉开他们之间的那张椅子说，“我的侏儒比你们两个加起来都玩儿的好。”
• She spoke out about all of it, though the ANC seldom deigned to notice or reply.
  她大胆地说出了这些情况，然而非洲人国民大会很少赏脸给予注意和回复。
• It measures excess phase of voltage current by using digital circuit, Based on the reactive compensation theorem, The software hardware of the controller is deigned.
  该控制器采用数字检测电路来获取电网电压与电流的相位差，从无功补偿的原理出发，设计控制器的软硬件。
• The king deigned to read my letter.
  国王俯允读我的信。
• And this temperature control system is well adaptive to the alteration of the unit's load and meets the deigned requirements.
  同时，该主汽温控制方案具有良好的负荷适应性，满足系统设计要求。
• Neither of the two men deigned to answer her question.
  二位男人都不蒙回答她的问题。
• No.I have seen him; but he has never deigned to notice me.
  不知道，我见过他，我，但是他从来不曾注意过我。
• I obeyed; and hemmed, and called the villain Juno, who deigned, at this second interview, to move the extreme tip of her tail, in token of owning my acquaintance.
  我驯服地坐下来，清了清嗓子，又跟阿谁恶女人打号召，而此次，她屈尊动了动她辫子的最末稍，暗示接管我为熟人。
• He was reminded of van gogh's the starry night, which he had never deigned to give a thought but now understood.
  他想起了梵高的《星夜》，以前他一直对那种画不屑一顾：而现在他懂了。