condescend
英 [ˌkɒndɪˈsend]
美 [ˌkɑːndɪˈsend]
v. 屈尊; 俯就; (对某人)表现出优越感
过去式:condescended 第三人称单数:condescends 过去分词:condescended 现在分词:condescending
BNC.34810 / COCA.28540
牛津词典
verb
- 屈尊;俯就
to do sth that you think it is below your social or professional position to do- We had to wait almost an hour before he condescended to see us.
我们等了几乎一小时他才屈尊大驾来见我们。
- We had to wait almost an hour before he condescended to see us.
- (对某人)表现出优越感
to behave towards sb as though you are more important and more intelligent than they are- When giving a talk, be careful not to condescend to your audience.
发表讲话时,注意别对听众表现出高人一等的样子。
- When giving a talk, be careful not to condescend to your audience.
英英释义
verb
- treat condescendingly
- debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way
- I won't stoop to reading other people's mail
- do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
- behave in a patronizing and condescending manner
双语例句
- You should never condescend or look down on a co-worker.
你永远也不应该瞧不起或以屈尊的对待同事。 - I never thought he would condescend to betraying his friends.
我万万没有想到他会不惜出卖朋友。 - Such, moreover, is the complexity of life, that when we condescend upon details in our advice, we may be sure we condescend on error;
这样,而且,是生命的复杂性,即当我们在我们的建议详情垂询,我们可以肯定我们在错误屈尊; - Don't condescend to me.
别在我面前摆架子。 - She did not condescend to have dinner with him.
她投有屈尊与他共餐。 - We just expect a love probably, sympathize with, these the precious emotion condescend to come.
我们才有可能期盼爱、同情,这些珍贵的情感降临。 - We condescend if we speak of it as a phenomenon of the poor.
如果我们说这是贫穷的现象那是我们屈尊了。 - Yet even as he declines to submit, he does condescend nonetheless to give an explanation of the philosophical way of life in terms that his fellow Athenians might understand.
然而,纵使苏格拉底拒绝屈从,但是他也屈尊俯就,明确地给出了哲学的生活方式之解释,此种解释他的同胞雅典人或许能理解。 - He did not condescend to their society, he seemed glad of it.
他并不是自贬身价地与她们交往,而是似乎乐于与她们交往。 - I do wish he wouldn't condescend to the junior staff in his department.
我但愿他不要假惺惺地纡尊降贵接近部门里的低级员工。