demean

英 [dɪˈmiːn]

美 [dɪˈmiːn]

v.  降低身份; 失去尊重; 贬低; 贬损; 使失尊严

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

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BNC.22692 / COCA.17616

牛津词典

verb

• 降低身份；失去尊重
  to do sth that makes people have less respect for you
  1. I wouldn't demean myself by asking for charity.
     我决不低三下四地乞求施舍。
• 贬低；贬损；使失尊严
  to make people have less respect for sb/sth
  1. Such images demean women.
     这些形象有损妇女尊严。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 降低(自己)的身份;有辱（自己）的人格
  If youdemean yourself, you do something which makes people have less respect for you.
  1. 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。
• VERB 贬低;贬损
  Todemeansomeone or something means to make people have less respect for them.
  1. 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

• reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
  1. She tends to put down younger women colleagues
  2. His critics took him down after the lecture
  Synonym:take downdegradedisgraceput down

双语例句

• He find it very demean to have to work for his former employee.
  他觉得要为他以前的雇员工作很失身分。
• Demean you in some way that I do not comprehend?
  我无意中贬低了你？
• 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。
• Never insult, embarrass, shame, yell at or otherwise demean a person.
  所以，千万不要对一个人进行侮辱、羞辱或者对其大吼，让其尴尬等。
• He would not demean himself to a lazy worker.
  他不愿降低身份当个懒工人。
• But this gentleman is no spy, and why should he so demean himself as to make himself one? 'But with my name, and with my little means, what am I to look to?
  这位先生既不是密探，又何苦降低身份去刺探别人的隐私呢。但是凭我现在的身份，凭我这一点家私，我能指望什么？
• Based on these concerns, the insecure manager might overexert authority, demean the high performer's contributions, or even take credit for much of the high performer's work.
  基于这些考虑不安的主管可能过度使用他的权威，贬低优秀人才的贡献，甚至将他们的成果据为己有。
• Participants who had both status and power did not greatly demean their partners.
  既有地位又有权力的参与者并不会太侮辱其同伴。
• He felt he would demean himself if he replied to the scurrilous letter.
  他觉得如果他回复那封充满辱骂的信，会自贬身份。
• You will demean yourself if you agree to the terms of the contract.
  要是同意契约的条款，就等于瞧不起自己。