demean

英 [dɪˈmiːn]

美 [dɪˈmiːn]

v.  降低身份; 失去尊重; 贬低; 贬损; 使失尊严

现在分词：demeaning　过去式：demeaned　第三人称单数：demeans　过去分词：demeaned　

GRETEM8

BNC.22692 / COCA.17616

牛津词典

verb

• 降低身份；失去尊重
  to do sth that makes people have less respect for you
  1. I wouldn't demean myself by asking for charity.
     我决不低三下四地乞求施舍。
• 贬低；贬损；使失尊严
  to make people have less respect for sb/sth
  1. Such images demean women.
     这些形象有损妇女尊严。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 降低(自己)的身份;有辱（自己）的人格
  If youdemean yourself, you do something which makes people have less respect for you.
  1. I wasn't going to demean myself by acting like a suspicious wife.
     我不会表现得像个疑神疑鬼的妻子一样自贬身价。
• VERB 贬低;贬损
  Todemeansomeone or something means to make people have less respect for them.
  1. Some groups say that pornography demeans women.
     一些团体认为色情作品贬低了女性。

英英释义

verb

• reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
  1. She tends to put down younger women colleagues
  2. His critics took him down after the lecture
  Synonym:take downdegradedisgraceput down

双语例句

• That is to demean our humanity because there are always options, always choices, always solutions that human ingenuity can summon, he said.
  他说：那是在贬低我们的人性，因为人类的智慧可以让我们永远有选择的权利，永远有选择的机会，永远有解决的方法。
• But I don't demean the fact that this is relevant to life.
  但我不贬低，这与生活息息相关的事实。
• He find it demean to ask his wife to support the family.
  他觉得让妻子来养家口有损他的面子。
• I wouldn't demean myself by asking my father for money.
  我不会降低自己身分去向父亲要钱。
• Do you think he would demean himself by accepting a bribe?
  你以为他会接受贿赂辱没自己吗？
• You will demean yourself if you agree to the terms of the contract.
  要是同意契约的条款，就等于瞧不起自己。
• He would not demean himself to a lazy worker.
  他不愿降低身份当个懒工人。
• Demean you in some way that I do not comprehend?
  我无意中贬低了你？
• I wouldn't demean myself to ask for favours from them.
  我不会降低身分向他们求情。
• Participants who had both status and power did not greatly demean their partners.
  既有地位又有权力的参与者并不会太侮辱其同伴。