belittling

英 [bɪˈlɪtlɪŋ]

美 [bɪˈlɪtlɪŋ]

v.  贬低; 小看
belittle的现在分词

现在分词：belittling　

COCA.43270

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

noun

• the act of belittling
• a belittling comment
  Synonym:denigration

adj

• tending to diminish or disparage
  1. belittling comments
  2. managed a deprecating smile at the compliment
  3. deprecatory remarks about the book
  4. a slighting remark
  Synonym:deprecatingdeprecativedeprecatorydepreciativedepreciatoryslighting

双语例句

• After entering the modern society, this kind of story that ordinary masses told is while affirming women's intelligence and laborer's own value, there is inclination of criticizing or belittling Confucius.
  进入现代社会后，普通群众讲述的该类故事则在肯定女性智慧和劳动者自身价值的同时，还有了批评或贬抑孔子的倾向。
• A distant or belittling father, an emotionally smothering or needy mother, and in the center a boy with nobody to guide him on the path to manhood.
  一个感情上几乎窒息的母亲。中间就是我，没有人指导我如何做男人。
• They sought to make themselves powerful by belittling others and making their employees question their own skills and abilities.
  他们是在通过贬损别人、让员工怀疑自己的能力和水平来让自己感到有力量。
• The best way is forgetting him, neglecting and belittling him.
  最好的办法是忘记，忽视和渺视他。
• However, his belittling of peasants from the angle of culture embodied the intolerance in his mind and emotion.
  但同时他从文化的角度对农民的贬损也体出了他在思想、情感方面的偏狭。
• The main problems existing in fixed assets management of scientific research institutes are valuing purchase but belittling management and low utilization ratio.
  科研单位固定资产管理存在的主要问题是：重购置轻管理，利用率低。
• We must be realistic in our self-estimation, neither being conceited nor belittling ourselves.
  我们对自己的估计应该实事求是，不要自高自大，也不要妄自菲薄。
• Companies may be reluctant to admit their offices are anything less than pleasant, but incivility think belittling barbs or gruff responses can lead to lost productivity, creativity and talent.
  公司也许不愿承认他们的办公室里有丁点的不愉快，但是无礼的行为想想那些贬损他人的冷嘲热讽或对人粗暴生硬的回应可能会引起生产力、创造力和才华的损失。
• Others, still smarting from years of belittling messages, will unconsciously tend to mirror others in the same way out of pattern repetition or to perpetuate a destructive pecking order.
  其它人，仍然在感受着多年的被缩小的刺痛，将会无意识地以同样的方式，出于重复的模式来镜射他人，或者重复地持久地使用破坏性的顺序。
• Rao argues against an "inbred academic system", while Cui accuses him of" belittling plant anatomy ".
  饶毅反对“一种世袭的学术系统”，而崔克明指控他“贬低植物形态解剖学”。