disparage

英 [dɪˈspærɪdʒ]

美 [dɪˈspærɪdʒ]

v.  贬低; 轻视

过去分词：disparaged　过去式：disparaged　第三人称单数：disparages　现在分词：disparaging　

TOEFLGREIELTS法律

BNC.21837 / COCA.17289

牛津词典

verb

• 贬低；轻视
  to suggest that sb/sth is not important or valuable
  1. I don't mean to disparage your achievements.
     我并不想贬低你的成就。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 贬低;轻视
  If youdisparagesomeone or something, you speak about them in a way which shows that you do not have a good opinion of them.
  1. ...Larkin's tendency to disparage literature.
     拉金贬低文学的倾向
  2. The tax cut is widely disparaged by senators from both parties as a budget gimmick.
     两个党派的参议员们普遍对作为预算噱头的税收削减嗤之以鼻。

英英释义

verb

• express a negative opinion of
  1. She disparaged her student's efforts
  Synonym:belittlepick at

双语例句

• Temporal self-appraisal theory mentions that individuals tend to disparage the past self and compliment the present self, in order to maintain and enhance the present self-esteem.
  时间自我评价理论认为个体在对时间维度上的自我进行评价时，通常会贬低过去自我，使现在自我优于过去自我，以维护和提升现在的自尊。
• Influenced by the thought of post-modernism philosophy, especially the knowledge view of post-modernism, some people disparage the function and value of the scientific knowledge education in the new curriculum reform.
  受后现代主义哲学思潮尤其是后现代知识观的影响，在我国新课改过程中，响起了贬低科学知识教育作用与价值的声音。
• Not only was I able to disparage their colour schemes but I could also play armchair psychologist and declare what it all meant.
  我不仅能够对他们的色彩方案指指点点，还能扮演一位纸上谈兵的心理学家，解读其中含义。
• I do not mean to disparage the creativity involved in food production.
  我并不是要贬低食品生产中所包含的创造力。
• I agree, but then he went on to say that government's role is not to disparage wealth, but to expand its reach.
  我同意这种说法，但他进而指出，政府的职责不是贬低财富，而是使更多人享有财富。
• The research on leisure should not disparage, ignore or repel popular and secular leisure.
  休闲研究不应贬损、忽视、拒斥大众化、世俗化的休闲。
• Political correctness is a term generally used to disparage efforts to raise awareness about and eliminate social and political biases in language and other forms of representation.
  政治正确是指为了避免真实存在的或所谓的不公正的歧视而采用的变换另一种称呼的行为。
• Other newspapers in the country tended to disparage this as'weak liberalism '.
  国内的其他报纸都把这种情形贬之为“软弱的自由主义”。
• We must get rid of the bad habit of writers who like to disparage one another.
  我们必须清除文人相轻的坏习气。
• Now I do not for a moment mean to disparage business.
  我无意贬低经商，只是说它不适合我。我做生意只是为了赚钱。