belittle

英 [bɪˈlɪtl]

美 [bɪˈlɪtl]

v.  贬低; 小看

现在分词：belittling　过去分词：belittled　第三人称单数：belittles　过去式：belittled　

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Collins.1 / BNC.18553 / COCA.15936

牛津词典

verb

• 贬低；小看
  to make sb or the things that sb does seem unimportant
  1. She felt her husband constantly belittled her achievements.
     她觉得她的丈夫时常贬低她的成就。

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

verb

• lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of
  1. don't belittle your colleagues
  Synonym:diminish
• express a negative opinion of
  1. She disparaged her student's efforts
  Synonym:disparagepick at
• cause to seem less serious
  1. Don't belittle his influence
  Synonym:minimizedenigratederogate

双语例句

• Do not belittle what he has achieved.
  不能小看他取得的成绩。
• But "study difficulty of student" because of long-term failure, ego belittle of incline to more severity.
  而“学习困难的学生”由于长期失败，自我贬低的倾向更严重。
• So dont belittle yourself or anyone else. Everybody is fighting their own unique war.
  所以，不要轻视你自己或者他人。每个人都有自己要去应对的战争。
• You shouldn't belittle her achievements.
  你不应该小看她的成就。
• 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。
• It is the best of a cumbersome process, and it is the worst shame and belittle it.
  最好它是一个繁琐的过程，并且在它最坏它是羞愧和贬低。
• And I must say that I don't have any show mean, I also not is to prove that myself have how noble values, I don't belittle other any Chinese woman, I just tell the real side.
  我也必须申明，我没有任何作秀的意思，我也并不是要证明自己有着如何高尚的情操，我不贬低其它的任何一个中国女性，我仅仅说出真实的一面。
• If you want to belittle the results to come out a particular survey, one way of doing this is that saying the people who are putting this survey is biased.
  如果你想轻视结果，从这个特别的调查中，一种方式是，说做这个调查的人都有偏见。
• Those who seek to belittle, invalidate argue, harm or violate are non-supportive types of humans.
  那些寻求贬低、无谓争辩、伤害或孤立的人是非支持类型的人类。
• He could not belittle love.
  他不能小看了爱情。