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单词 demean
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释义
词典释义:
demean
GRE
英 [dɪˈmiːn]
美 [dəˈmin]

v. 使失尊严;有辱…的人格;贬低;使举止显出一定特征;自贬人格

  • 第三人称单数 demeans
  • 现在分词 demeaning
  • 过去分词 demeaned
  • 过去式 demeaned
双语例句
  • The king demeaned the foreign emissary.

    国王羞辱了这个外国的使者。

  • This mean woman often demeans her neighbors.

    这个刻薄的女人经常羞辱自己的邻居。

  • Begging for your life in front of the enemy will demean you.

    你在敌人面前求饶会辱没你的身份。

  • 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

  • Such images demean women.

    这些形象有损妇女尊严。

  • I wouldn't demean myself by asking for charity.

    我决不低三下四地乞求施舍。

  • Such lier will demean you.

    这样的谎言会贬低你的身分。

  • He would not demean himself to a lazy worker.

    他不愿降低身份当个懒工人。

  • Let's not demean the role of being a follower.

    我们不要小看追随者的作用。

近义词
vt.
bear oneselfdeport
同根词

词根 demean

  • demeaning adj. 降低身份的;有损人格的 v. 有损…的人格(demean的ing形式)

  • demeanor n. 风度;举止;行为

释义
v.

cause a severe loss in the dignity of and respect for (someone or something)

使失尊严,有辱…的人格,贬低

  • the poster was not demeaning to women

    那海报并非贬低女性

  • I had demeaned the profession.

    我辱没了这个职业。

(demean oneself)do something that is beneath one's dignity

自贬人格。

v.

archaic conduct oneself in a particular way

〈古〉 使举止显出一定特征

  • no man demeaned himself so honourably.

    再没有人举止有他那么体面。

词源

"early 17th cent.: from DE- ‘away, down'+the adjective MEAN2, on the pattern of debase.Middle English (also in the sense ‘manage, control’): from Old French demener ‘to lead', based on Latin de- ‘away'+ minare ‘drive (animals), drive on with threats' (from minari ‘threaten’)."

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