patronising

英 ['peɪtrənaɪz]

美

vt. （英）保护（等于patronize）
patronising的现在分词

现在分词：patronising　

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双语例句

• The managers adopt patronising attitudes towards the obedient and faithful subordinates.
  对待听话、忠诚的下属经理们拥有一种屈尊俯就的态度。
• First, slow down, but not to the point where members of your audience think you are patronising them.
  首先，慢下来，但是不要慢到使你的听众觉得你是在屈尊俯就。
• Even SNCF, France's national rail company, is considering buying them for the Eurostar, its trans-channel service, rather than patronising Alstom, the French national champion.
  甚至连法国国家铁路公司也在考虑购买，以用于跨越海峡的交通项目欧洲之星的运营，而并没有购买法国国内的龙头老大阿尔斯通的产品。
• Their attempts to be casual have so far just looked arch or patronising.
  他们本想做出漫不经心的样子，结果反而显得傲慢自大或自视甚高。
• Why should I give my patronising colleague the benefit of the doubt when he was so clearly in the wrong?
  为什么我应该在我高傲的同事显然有错时，却对他“无罪推定”？
• All of this was a world away from George W Bush, who was unable to address Muslims in a tone that was not bellicose or patronising.
  所有这些都与小布什有天壤之别，小布什是用好战的或者居高临下的语气对穆斯林讲话。
• "This is insulting and patronising" to recipient countries, he said.
  他表示，对接收国而言，“这是一种侮辱和居高临下的表现”。
• Stop patronising me-I understand the play as well as you do.
  别跟我摆谱了&我和你一样理解这出戏。
• The sentiment behind the utterance is undoubtedly a sincere and genuine one, free of any deliberate intent to patronise, but it was patronising nonetheless.
  这样的言论背后的感情无疑是诚恳且真实的，没有任何自以为优越的用意，但它确实是一种高人一等的态度。