demean是什么意思

demean

英标 [dɪˈmiːn]
进阶级
demean 贬低,侮辱
及物动词使降低身份,使卑下

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单词变形

第三人称单数
demeans
现在分词
demeaning
过去分词
demeaned
过去式
demeaned

网络解释

1. 贬抑,降低:deliberate 熟思,考虑,有意,存心的 | demean 贬抑,降低 | demerit 短处,过失,缺点

2. 自贬;降低:scooter 踏板车 | demean 自贬;降低 | demeanour 行为, 举止

3. 行为:demasculinization 男性症丧失 | demean 行为 | dement 使发疯

4. 举止:deme 阿提卡市区 | demean 举止 | demeanour 行为

词典解释


1. 降低(自己)的身份;有辱(自己)的人格
If you demean yourself, you do something which makes people have less respect for you.

e.g. I wasn't going to demean myself by acting like a suspicious wife.
我不会表现得像个疑神疑鬼的妻子一样自贬身价。


2. 贬低;贬损
To demean someone or something means to make people have less respect for them.

e.g. Some groups say that pornography demeans women.
一些团体认为色情作品贬低了女性。

英英释义

verb


1. reduce in worth or character, usually verbally

e.g. She tends to put down younger women colleagues
His critics took him down after the lecture

Synonym: take downdegradedisgraceput down

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