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

• 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。
• Therefore, O Children of the Gods, try Them not, nor attempt to test Them, for They shall show you that he Ways of the Craft are not to be belittled or mocked.
  所以，噢，众神的孩子啊，不应当去论断祂们，不应当去试探祂们，祂们显示给你的技艺道路，不应当被轻视或嘲笑。
• A poor but honest man is not to be belittled.
  穷而诚实的人是不该让人小看的。
• Meanwhile, more serious European newspapers and wire services belittled the talent search.
  与此同时，欧洲一些比较严肃的媒体对这次试训表现得很不屑。
• 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。
• I felt belittled by his lack of confidence in me.
  我觉得他对我缺乏自信就是轻视我。
• 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。
• Nevertheless modern western nations figured the ideal development mode of the human for "economic man" and belittled the religious morals personality by traditional Christianity's advocating, which caused the widespread alienation of human and deviated from the essence of the development of human nature.
  近代以来的西方国家把经济人塑造为人的理想发展模式，贬低传统的基督教所提倡的宗教道德人格，导致了人的普遍异化，背离了人性发展的应有之义；
• 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。
• And still he is challenged, and still his goodness is spurned, and still his wisdom is belittled, and still there are attempts to usurp his authority.
  仍旧有人挑战他，仍旧有人拒绝他的仁慈，仍旧有人轻视他的智慧，仍旧有人企图盗用他的授权。