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

• That ever deigned to bloom.
  可它注定永不开放。
• Coincidentally, or not, Beijing has deigned to allow Taiwan observer status at the World Health Organisation's annual assembly, dropping its customary objection to the attendance of an island state it considers a mere province of China.
  巧合的是（或者并非巧合），北京已惠允台湾以观察员的身份出席世界卫生组织（WHO）年度大会，放弃了反对它认为只是自己一个省份的台湾参加该大会的一贯姿态。
• Neither of the two men deigned to answer her question.
  二位男人都不蒙回答她的问题。
• Ken's answers were always in single syllables if he even deigned to say anything at all.
  如果他甚至蒙全然说任何事，肯恩的答案总是在单一音节中。
• 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。
• 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。
• Mandy was the only person who deigned to speak to him.
  曼迪是唯一一个肯屈尊跟他说话的人。
• 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。
• Both changed colour, one looked white, the other red. Mr. Wickham, after a few moments, touched his hat& a salutation which Mr. Darcy just deigned to return.
  两个人都变了脸色，一个惨白，一个通红，过了一会儿，韦翰先生按了按帽子，达西先生勉强回了一下礼。
• She deigned no further reply.
  她不再屈尊作答了。