look down on

英 [lʊk daʊn ɒn]

美 [lʊk daʊn ɑːn]

蔑视; 轻视; 小看

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 蔑视；轻视；小看
  Tolook down onsomeone means to consider that person to be inferior or unimportant, usually when this is not true.
  1. I wasn't successful, so they looked down on me.
     我一无所成，所以他们瞧不起我。

英英释义

verb

• regard with contempt
  1. the new neighbor looks down on us because our house is very modest

双语例句

• From the top of the bus you could look down on people below.
  从公共汽车的顶上，你可以俯视下面的人。
• I wasn't successful, so they looked down on me.
  我一无所成，所以他们瞧不起我。
• I wish you wouldn't look down on this kind of work.
  我希望你不要看不起这种工作。
• So they like to have someone to look down on.
  所以通常会和一些低层人的比较。
• The way people in the West have started to look down on walking is detectable in the language.
  在西方，人们对走路的轻视在语言中也有迹可循。
• As a Han Chinese, I look down on them.
  作为一个汉人，我看不起他们。
• The African countries and peoples, having stood up, dare to look down on superpower hegemonism.
  已经站立起来的非洲国家和人民敢于藐视超级大国的霸权主义。
• What irritates me most is the way she seems to look down on me.
  最使我恼怒的是她似乎看不起我。
• Graduates may look down on these people, but who is getting the jobs?
  毕业生们可能看不起这些人，但是究竟谁能得到工作呢？
• Don't look down on the role women can play.
  不要瞧不起妇女的作用。