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 people!
  别小看人！
• 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。
• 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。
• 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！
• 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！
• Graduates may look down on these people, but who is getting the jobs?
  毕业生们可能看不起这些人，但是究竟谁能得到工作呢？
• Don't look down on others, in fact, you are not much better than they are.
  不要看不起别人，其实你并不比别人强到哪儿去。
• I wish you wouldn't look down on this kind of work.
  我希望你不要看不起这种工作。