中文翻译与英英解释 | vt.
〔美国〕
1.(相形之下)使显得微小，缩小。
2.小视，轻视，贬损，贬低。
短语和例子
The bulk of the warehouse belittles the houses around it. 货栈的庞大使周围的房屋显得矮小了。 belittle oneself 自卑。
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| lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of; "don''t belittle your colleagues"
同义词：diminish,
| | express a negative opinion of; "She disparaged her student''s efforts"
同义词：disparage, pick at,
| | cause to seem less serious; play down; "Don''t belittle his influence"
同义词：minimize, denigrate, derogate,
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例句与用法 | 1. | Do not belittle what he has achieved .
不能小看他取得的成绩。
| | 2. | The whigs may attempt to belittle our candidates .
辉格党人可能会试图贬低我们的候选人。
| | 3. | Do not belittle yourself .
不要贬低你自己。
| | 4. | The bulk of the warehouse belittles the houses around it .
货栈的庞大使周围的房屋显得矮小了。
| | 5. | To criticize my father is to belittle us all in the eyes of the world .
责备我的父亲，等于当众侮辱我们。
| | 6. | This is not to belittle the enormous progress in the development of refractories .
这并非是小看耐火材料发展中的巨大进步。
| | 7. | Many ground soldiers belittled the potentialities of the airplane against ground formations .
许多陆军人员轻视飞机攻击地面部队的能力。
| | 8. | We must be realistic in our self-estimation , neither being conceited nor belittling ourselves .
我们对自己的估计应该实事求是，不要自高自大，也不要妄自菲薄。
| | 9. | I had no intention of either glorifying or belittling christianity, merely the desire to understand it .
我并没有赞扬基督教或蔑视它的立意，我所想的只是了解它。
| | 10. | True, in her school days she had been inclined to belittle her mother's taste, knowledge, and judgment .
的确，在她读书的时候，她有些瞧不起她母亲的嗜好、知识和见解。
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