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。
• 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；
• Therefore, O Children of the Gods, try Them not, nor attempt to test Them, for They shall show you that he Ways of the Craft are not to be belittled or mocked.
  所以，噢，众神的孩子啊，不应当去论断祂们，不应当去试探祂们，祂们显示给你的技艺道路，不应当被轻视或嘲笑。
• 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。
• 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”。
• The abilities others may have should not be belittled or scorned.
  别人若是有才能，不要轻易地诽谤批评。
• Many ground soldiers belittled the potentialities of the airplane against ground formations.
  许多陆军人员轻视飞机攻击地面部队的能力。
• 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。
• 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。
• "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。”