belittled

英 [bɪˈlɪtld]

美 [bɪˈlɪtld]

v.  贬低; 小看
belittle的过去分词和过去式

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

adj

• made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)
  1. her comments made me feel small
  Synonym:diminishedsmall

双语例句

• Language, to a great extent, reflects such social phenomena: females are defamed, belittled, and layed in the position of being subordinate to males.
  语言在很大程度上反映了诋毁女性、贬低女性，并将女性置于男性的附属地位的社会现象。
• Belittled by critics, and facing the prospect of default, he was under intense pressure to sign a deal.
  面对批评人士的贬低和债务违约的可能，他承受着达成协议的巨大压力。
• Therefore, O Children of the Gods, try Them not, nor attempt to test Them, for They shall show you that he Ways of the Craft are not to be belittled or mocked.
  所以，噢，众神的孩子啊，不应当去论断祂们，不应当去试探祂们，祂们显示给你的技艺道路，不应当被轻视或嘲笑。
• The value of traditional Sinology is seriously belittled under the various attacks at home and abroad.
  摘要国学的价值、在内外各种势力的攻击之下，被严重地贬低了。
• Putting questions has been belittled and come to be the only tool, thus imagination vanished and curiosity faded away.
  提问开始遭到贬谛，成为利用的工具，想象消逝了，好奇消亡了。
• Though the church's attitudes towards women were uniform overall, in the Middle Ages emphasizing asceticism, the church still vigorously preached the evils of women, strongly belittled their status and emphasized the dependence and obedience of women on men.
  虽然教会女性观总体上并不统一，但在强调禁欲主义的中世纪，教会大肆宣扬妇女的罪恶，极力贬低她们的地位，强调女性对男性的依附和顺从。
• Migrant workers for their city economic development efforts, in the whole city each building has not be belittled.
  农民工他们为城市经济发展出力，在整个城市的各个建设方面有不可小视的功劳。
• I felt belittled by his lack of confidence in me.
  我觉得他对我缺乏自信就是轻视我。
• "I never missed a single deadline," Ahlrichs says," Yet every week he'd ask that same question. I felt belittled by his lack of confidence in me."
  “我从来没错过最后期限，”阿瑞克说，“而至今为止他每个星期仍问着我同样的问题。他对我这么缺乏信心让我觉得自己被轻视了。”
• A person who belittled our efforts to do the job right.
  一个小看我们为做好工作而付出的努力的人。