belittles

英 [bɪˈlɪtlz]

美 [bɪˈlɪtlz]

v.  贬低; 小看
belittle的第三人称单数

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。

双语例句

• Whoever belittles another lacks sense, but an intelligent person remains silent.
  藐视邻居的，毫无智慧，明哲人却静默不言。
• A communication that belittles somebody or something.
  低估某人或某物的信息交流。
• If the person belittles you or laughs at your hopes and dreams, your relationship wont'be a happy one.
  如果这个人轻视你或者嘲笑你的希望和梦想，那么你们的这种关系一定不会开心的。
• But the existence of government's recessive guarantee makes the subordinated debt like the deposit that has a channel to shift away the risk and then belittles its market discipline on the commercial banks.
  但政府隐性担保的存在使次级债券找到了一条类似银行存款一样的风险转嫁渠道，弱化了其风险约束功能。
• It belittles by inverting the relative importance of things, thus dwarfing the thoughts and aspirations of a people.
  它通过反演轻旳相对重要性旳东西，这样旳想法和愿望下显得&个人。
• Mr.A is a compulsive talker and belittles his friends whenever he can.
  先生说话带有强制性地说个不停，他总是尽量贬低他的朋友。
• As for the concept of subjectivity, the self-depreciation style of the culture of clown belittles the Zen subjectivity as a clown rather than a hero.
  就主体观而言，丑角文化的自嘲自贬风格，使禅修者从英雄滑向小丑：丑角文化中的反伦理倾向，催生了禅宗呵佛骂祖的伦理观。
• The height of the Empire State Building belittles the houses around it.
  帝国大厦的高度使它周遭的房屋显得渺小。
• Traditional ethical ideas teach people to value righteousness and belittle profit, but if an enterprise belittles profit, it cannot last long.
  传统伦理思想教育人们要重义轻利，但是一个企业要是轻利，那它可能一天也生存不下去。
• The zi study aspect, "Jieti" is venerated then influence the Confucianism, belittles other various, but quite takes to narrate the source and course to test distinguishes.
  子学方面，《解题》受当时的影响，尊崇儒学，贬抑其他各家，但比较重视叙述源流的考辨。