demeans

英 [dɪˈmiːnz]

美 [dɪˈmiːnz]

v.  降低身份; 失去尊重; 贬低; 贬损; 使失尊严
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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。

双语例句

• Don't you see how this demeans me?
  你不明白这对我意味着什么吗？
• The poverty of 10 million citizens not only demeans our society but its cost also hobbles our economy.
  1,000万的贫困人口不仅给我们的社会抹黑，而且在这上面的支出也阻碍了我们的经济发展。
• She demeans herself by doing his dirty work.
  他得荣誉，我们做不讨好的工作。
• Another statement appeared on a jihadist website saying the burial of Bin Laden at sea "demeans and humiliates his family".
  出现在圣战网站上的另一份声明则认为本·拉登的海葬是“贬低和羞辱他的家人”。
• It could provoke a public tit-for-tat between the two parties that ultimately demeans the coalition.
  它可以掀起两党之间的公开斗争从而贬损联合政府。
• A person who demeans and belittle you and speaks of you with contempt to others is probably going to be that way for years.
  一个贬低你，瞧不起你的人，一个对别人用轻蔑的态度提起你的人可能会一直这样。
• Such behaviour demeans yourself in others'eyes.
  这种行为能贬低你在别人眼里的身份。
• This shabby proxy war demeans all involved.
  这一卑鄙的代理人战争贬低参与各方的身份。
• It said US President Barack Obama was "legally responsible" for clarifying "the fate of our father" and that the sea burial "demeans and humiliates his family and his supporters".
  它说美国总统奥巴马在法律上有责任对我们父亲的命运做出解释，并且海葬是对本·拉登家人以及他的支持者的蔑视和侮辱。
• The hodgepodge system we have now demeans nearly all those who touch it.
  目前这种杂乱的体系，会让几乎所有接触到它的人都有失身份。