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

• The press gave the by-election no publicity and belittled its significance.
  新闻界对这次补选未加宣传。小看了它的重要性。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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
• Meanwhile, more serious European newspapers and wire services belittled the talent search.
  与此同时，欧洲一些比较严肃的媒体对这次试训表现得很不屑。
• Though she had spent hours fixing the computer he belittled her efforts, dismissing it as "basic mechanics".
  虽然她花了几小时修理电脑，他却无视她的努力，斥之为“雕虫小技”。
• Compared with Morning Flowers, Collected in the Evening, Wu Chang, another essay collection by Lu Xun, has always been belittled by researchers, because of its unusual writing style.
  《无常》因其与《朝花夕拾》格格不入的杂文化风格常常被研究者简单化处理。
• And still he is challenged, and still his goodness is spurned, and still his wisdom is belittled, and still there are attempts to usurp his authority.
  仍旧有人挑战他，仍旧有人拒绝他的仁慈，仍旧有人轻视他的智慧，仍旧有人企图盗用他的授权。
• 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。
• Nevertheless modern western nations figured the ideal development mode of the human for "economic man" and belittled the religious morals personality by traditional Christianity's advocating, which caused the widespread alienation of human and deviated from the essence of the development of human nature.
  近代以来的西方国家把经济人塑造为人的理想发展模式，贬低传统的基督教所提倡的宗教道德人格，导致了人的普遍异化，背离了人性发展的应有之义；