slights

英 [slaɪts]

美 [slaɪts]

n.  侮慢; 冷落; 轻视
v.  侮慢; 冷落; 轻视
slight的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 轻微的;少量的;小的
  Something that isslightis very small in degree or quantity.
  1. Doctors say he has made a slight improvement...
     医生说他的病情稍有好转。
  2. We have a slight problem...
     我们有一个小小的问题。
  3. A slight smile flickered over his face...
     他的脸上闪过一丝微笑。
  4. He's not the slightest bit worried.
     他一点儿也不担心。
• ADJ-GRADED (人)瘦弱的，瘦小的
  Aslightperson has a fairly thin and delicate looking body.
  1. She is smaller and slighter than Christie.
     她比克里斯蒂瘦小。
  2. ...a slight, bespectacled figure.
     身材瘦小、戴着眼镜的人
• VERB 不理睬;藐视;轻蔑;冷落
  If youare slighted, someone does or says something that insults you by treating you as if your views or feelings are not important.
  1. They felt slighted by not being adequately consulted.
     没有充分征求他们的意见，这让他们感到被冷落了。
  2. Slightis also a noun.
     
  3. It isn't a slight on my husband that I enjoy my evening class.
     我喜欢上夜课并非是对丈夫的冷落。
• PHRASE (用于加强陈述的否定语气)一点也(不)
  You usein the slightestto emphasize a negative statement.
  1. That doesn't interest me in the slightest...
     那一点也不能引起我的兴趣。
  2. 'Do you worry about ageing?' — 'Not in the slightest.'
     “你担心变老吗？”——“一点也不。”

双语例句

• Suicide bombers often target police stations or local government bureaux in retribution for land grabs or other slights.
  自杀式***袭击通常以警察局或者地方政府办公楼为目标，以报复强占土地或者其他蔑视民众利益的举动。
• If you're the one who wants the apology, stick to the matter at hand. Don't bring up past slights.
  如果你是想要别人道歉的那个人，就事论事，不要提起过去的不快。
• He laughed; Hareton darkened: I perceived he was very sensitive to suspected slights, and had obviously a dim notion of his inferiority.
  我想他对猜疑到的轻蔑是很敏感的，而且显然对他的卑微有一个模糊的概念。
• But calling even this "leadership" slights it, because its effectiveness lies not in any individual so much as in the collective social process essentially in community.
  但是即便将这称为“领导力”也还有点以偏概全，因为它的效果不取决于任何个人，而是取决于集体，尤其是社区内部的社会交互过程。
• Some believe that the Christmas card list, where we keep track of old favours and slights, is a sort of passive-aggressive vendetta.
  有人认为，记录着我们之前得到过的帮助和受过的怠慢的圣诞卡寄送名单，是一种消极的复仇。
• Results: Whether or not take early treatment has relation with the recovery of slights, amount of bleeding, eyeball damage degree and other complications.
  结果：钝挫伤性前房出血患者视力恢复、出血量、眼球损伤程度及有无影响视力的并发症等与是否早期治疗有关。
• While Nile Gardiner, one Romney adviser, has made a fetish of compiling lists of alleged slights to Britain by the Obama administration, most of these have failed to register with the British themselves.
  罗姆尼的一名顾问奈尔加德纳（nilegardiner）夸张地列出了一份清单，宣称上面都是表明奥巴马政府轻慢英国的一些事实，其中大多数连英国人自己都没有注意到。
• You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices.
  你可能一辈子都憎恨这些考验，为这些侮辱和不公平忿忿不平。
• Next several slights detail this program and also provide a clear definition I think of the strong safety-oriented culture in the long term.
  接下来的几张幻灯片详述了这个项目，提供了清晰的定义，我想这种长期强有力的安全导向的文化。
• A nothing vexed him; and suspected slights of his authority nearly threw him into fits.
  无关紧要的事也让他感到烦心，如若稍有置疑他的权威，他就会发作一气。