belittled

英 [bɪˈlɪtld]

美 [bɪˈlɪtld]

v.  贬低; 小看
belittle的过去分词和过去式

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

adj

• made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)
  1. her comments made me feel small
  Synonym:diminishedsmall

双语例句

• Being so young, he is belittled by others in the beginning, which actually gives him a better chance to be the black horse.
  因为他年纪小，别人开始都不把他放在眼里，所以他才有机会成为黑马。
• Among other specific complaints, Ms. Hong said that she was belittled at work, admonished for taking allowed time off to visit her child at school and ordered to organize parties and serve drinks to male colleagues.
  洪嘉说自己在工作中遭到轻视，虽然获准请假去学校看望孩子，却因此遭到训斥，被命令去组织派对，并为男同事上饮料，此外还有其他一些具体投诉。
• Christian fiction too, long belittled as either low-quality dross or frivolous and a waste of time, is enjoying a boom that has been linked by some to George W.Bush's presidency.
  基督教小说类图书的销量也大幅攀升，这与美国总统布什的就职有一定关系。长期以来，基督教小说一直被认为是质量不高且无聊乏味，读起来根本就是浪费时间。
• I find it belittled to be criticized by someone so much younger than me
  有个比我年轻许多的人批评了我，我觉得是小看了我
• Though she had spent hours fixing the computer he belittled her efforts, dismissing it as "basic mechanics".
  虽然她花了几小时修理电脑，他却无视她的努力，斥之为“雕虫小技”。
• I have never been praised nor belittled; I am below no one.
  我不曾被称赞或被轻视，我不在任何人之下。
• The abilities others may have should not be belittled or scorned.
  别人若是有才能，不要轻易地诽谤批评。
• In the modern society, the protective and improvable function of the Landscape architecture for people's physical and moral health may not be belittled.
  现代社会中，园林景观对于人们身心健康的保护与改善作用更不可小觑。
• The value of traditional Sinology is seriously belittled under the various attacks at home and abroad.
  摘要国学的价值、在内外各种势力的攻击之下，被严重地贬低了。
• Compared with Morning Flowers, Collected in the Evening, Wu Chang, another essay collection by Lu Xun, has always been belittled by researchers, because of its unusual writing style.
  《无常》因其与《朝花夕拾》格格不入的杂文化风格常常被研究者简单化处理。