belittle
belittle 英 [bɪˈlɪtl] 美 [bi'litəl]
vt. 轻视；贬低；使相形见小
进行时:belittling 过去式:belittled 过去分词:belittled 第三人称单数:belittles
- To belittle means to put down, or to make another person feel as though they aren't important. Saying mean things about another person literally makes them feel "little."
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- vt. 轻视；贬低；使相形见小
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1. Don't belittle her piano playing just because you're jealous.
不要仅仅因为你忌妒而贬低她的钢琴弹奏。
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2. Whatever one may think about Marx, one must not belittle the role he plays in our world.
无论你怎么看待马克思，你都不可能贬低他在我们的世界中所发挥的作用。
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3. For we need never return to the abuses, ignorance, and shallow suggestions of those who —knowing nothing of its power —belittle the craft.
因为我们不需要再忍受那些因不懂的工艺的作用，而轻视它的人的暴行，愚昧和肤浅建议。
- belittle (v.) 1781, "to make small, reduce in proportion," from be- + little (v.); first recorded in writings of Thomas Jefferson (and probably coined by him), Jefferson used it in "Notes on the State of Virginia" to characterize the view promoted as scientific by French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon that American species (including humans) were naturally smaller than and inferior to European ones, which Jefferson was at pains to refute. ("So far the Count de Buffon has carried this new theory of the tendency of nature to belittle her productions on this side of the Atlantic.") The word was roundly execrated in England:
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