demeans

英 [英 [dɪˈmiːnz]]

美 [美 [dɪˈmiːnz]]

v.  降低身份; 失去尊重; 贬低; 贬损; 使失尊严
demean的第三人称单数

　 　 　 　

双语例句

• Don't you see how this demeans me?
  你不明白这对我意味着什么吗？
• We are living in an age that prizes competition and demeans cooperation, an era more narcissistic than the Gilded Age, more hubristic than the age of Jackson.
  我们生活在一个重视竞争而轻视合作的时代，一个比镀金时代（GildedAge）更加自恋的时代，一个比杰克逊时代（theageofJackson）更加自大。
• It could provoke a public tit-for-tat between the two parties that ultimately demeans the coalition.
  它可以掀起两党之间的公开斗争从而贬损联合政府。
• Because it demeans what we're doing here.
  我们在这里做的可不是什么好事情。
• Such behaviour demeans yourself in others'eyes.
  这种行为能贬低你在别人眼里的身份。
• She demeans herself by doing his dirty work.
  他得荣誉，我们做不讨好的工作。
• The poverty of 10 million citizens not only demeans our society but its cost also hobbles our economy.
  1,000万的贫困人口不仅给我们的社会抹黑，而且在这上面的支出也阻碍了我们的经济发展。
• Another statement appeared on a jihadist website saying the burial of Bin Laden at sea "demeans and humiliates his family".
  出现在圣战网站上的另一份声明则认为本·拉登的海葬是“贬低和羞辱他的家人”。
• 2 sexist language is any language, whether written or oral, which by its use, form or structure demeans people on account of their gender.
  性别歧视语言指的是任何通过其用法、形式或结构来贬低他人性别的语言，无论它存在于口语还是书面语。
• It said US President Barack Obama was "legally responsible" for clarifying "the fate of our father" and that the sea burial "demeans and humiliates his family and his supporters".
  它说美国总统奥巴马在法律上有责任对我们父亲的命运做出解释，并且海葬是对本·拉登家人以及他的支持者的蔑视和侮辱。