belittles

英 [bɪˈlɪtlz]

美 [bɪˈlɪtlz]

v.  贬低; 小看
belittle的第三人称单数

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。

双语例句

• In allusion to the "Unitary Foreign Language" tendency in the college English major education which belittles the students'cultural quality, we revealed its disadvantage and potential disbenefit.
  针对高校外语专业轻视学生文化素养的单一外语倾向，并对其弊端和潜在危害进行了揭示。
• Due to our country's legal tradition that stresses the entity and belittles the procedure, procedural illegal affairs emerge one after another in the present procedure of criminal reconnaissance in our country.
  摘要与我国历来重实体、轻程序的法制传统相对应，在我国现阶段刑事侦察程序中程序性违法事件层出不穷。
• The height of the Empire State Building belittles the houses around it.
  帝国大厦的高度使它周遭的房屋显得渺小。
• Denies oneself is stems from to the truth and to the self-cognition, but is not improperly belittles oneself with self-deprecatorily.
  否定自己是出于对真理和对自我的认知，而不是妄自菲薄和自轻自贱。
• But we cannot allow it to remain so, for thus it belittles our own self.
  但我们不能这样任其存在下去，因为这样做是对我们自身的贬低。
• Traditional ethical ideas teach people to value righteousness and belittle profit, but if an enterprise belittles profit, it cannot last long.
  传统伦理思想教育人们要重义轻利，但是一个企业要是轻利，那它可能一天也生存不下去。
• Mr.A is a compulsive talker and belittles his friends whenever he can.
  先生说话带有强制性地说个不停，他总是尽量贬低他的朋友。
• It was entitled "On Practice" because its stress was on exposing the dogmatist kind of subjectivism, which belittles practice.
  因为重点是揭露看轻实践的教条主义这种主观主义，故题为《实践论》。
• As for the concept of subjectivity, the self-depreciation style of the culture of clown belittles the Zen subjectivity as a clown rather than a hero.
  就主体观而言，丑角文化的自嘲自贬风格，使禅修者从英雄滑向小丑：丑角文化中的反伦理倾向，催生了禅宗呵佛骂祖的伦理观。
• If the person belittles you or laughs at your hopes and dreams, your relationship wont'be a happy one.
  如果这个人轻视你或者嘲笑你的希望和梦想，那么你们的这种关系一定不会开心的。