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

• 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。
• In the modern society, the protective and improvable function of the Landscape architecture for people's physical and moral health may not be belittled.
  现代社会中，园林景观对于人们身心健康的保护与改善作用更不可小觑。
• Belittled life results from belittled laws.
  法律轻，所以人命轻。
• 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。
• One party of debate think the folk form is the centre source of the national style and belittled the May Fourth Movement; Though another party disagree with this view, they have already rewritten the May Fourth Movement.
  论战一方认为民间形式是民族形式的中心源泉，从而去贬低五四；另一方虽然不同意此观点，但是已经对五四进行了改写。
• Christian fiction too, long belittled as either low-quality dross or frivolous and a waste of time, is enjoying a boom that has been linked by some to George W.Bush's presidency.
  基督教小说类图书的销量也大幅攀升，这与美国总统布什的就职有一定关系。长期以来，基督教小说一直被认为是质量不高且无聊乏味，读起来根本就是浪费时间。
• Being so young, he is belittled by others in the beginning, which actually gives him a better chance to be the black horse.
  因为他年纪小，别人开始都不把他放在眼里，所以他才有机会成为黑马。
• "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。”
• I have never been praised nor belittled; I am below no one.
  我不曾被称赞或被轻视，我不在任何人之下。
• I find it belittled to be criticized by someone so much younger than me
  有个比我年轻许多的人批评了我，我觉得是小看了我