look down on

英 [lʊk daʊn ɒn]

美 [lʊk daʊn ɑːn]

蔑视; 轻视; 小看

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 蔑视；轻视；小看
  Tolook down onsomeone means to consider that person to be inferior or unimportant, usually when this is not true.
  1. I wasn't successful, so they looked down on me.
     我一无所成，所以他们瞧不起我。

英英释义

verb

• regard with contempt
  1. the new neighbor looks down on us because our house is very modest

双语例句

• The way people in the West have started to look down on walking is detectable in the language.
  在西方，人们对走路的轻视在语言中也有迹可循。
• The African countries and peoples, having stood up, dare to look down on superpower hegemonism.
  已经站立起来的非洲国家和人民敢于藐视超级大国的霸权主义。
• Take a step forward, or you can't look down on his grave.
  向前走一步，否则你无法往下看到他的坟墓。
• Sarah: I don't.I look down on you because you're cheap!
  赛拉：我没有，我看不起你是因为你吝啬！
• What irritates me most is the way she seems to look down on me.
  最使我恼怒的是她似乎看不起我。
• She look down on the office girls she have work with.
  她瞧不起与她共事的女勤杂工。
• You look down on everyone, consider them beneath you.
  你轻视别人，认为他们都不如你。
• Squirrels and thrushes can only look down on us and smile.
  松鼠和画眉只能对迟钝的我们嗤之以鼻，微微一笑。
• And to the Chinese, don't look down on us!
  还有，中国人，不要小瞧了我们！
• We should never look down on manual labor.
  我们决不应该轻视体力劳动。