demean

英 [dɪˈmiːn]

美 [dɪˈmiːn]

v. 降低身份; 失去尊重; 贬低; 贬损; 使失尊严

现在分词：demeaning　过去式：demeaned　第三人称单数：demeans　过去分词：demeaned　

BNC.22692 / COCA.17616

牛津词典

verb

降低身份；失去尊重
to do sth that makes people have less respect for you
1. I wouldn't demean myself by asking for charity.
  我决不低三下四地乞求施舍。
贬低；贬损；使失尊严
to make people have less respect for sb/sth
1. Such images demean women.
  这些形象有损妇女尊严。

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。

verb

reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
1. She tends to put down younger women colleagues
2. His critics took him down after the lecture
Synonym:take downdegradedisgraceput down

I wouldn't demean myself to ask for favours from them.
我不会降低身分向他们求情。
That is to demean our humanity because there are always options, always choices, always solutions that human ingenuity can summon, he said.
他说：那是在贬低我们的人性，因为人类的智慧可以让我们永远有选择的权利，永远有选择的机会，永远有解决的方法。
But we do this whenever we dismiss or demean or complain about the church.
但是每当我们轻视教会、贬抑教会、抱怨教会时，我们便是如此做。
He would not demean himself to a lazy worker.
他不愿降低身份当个懒工人。
But this gentleman is no spy, and why should he so demean himself as to make himself one? 'But with my name, and with my little means, what am I to look to?
这位先生既不是密探，又何苦降低身份去刺探别人的隐私呢。但是凭我现在的身份，凭我这一点家私，我能指望什么？
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。
I wouldn't demean myself by asking my father for money.
我不会降低自己身分去向父亲要钱。
He find it demean to ask his wife to support the family.
他觉得让妻子来养家口有损他的面子。
Do you think he would demean himself by accepting a bribe?
你以为他会接受贿赂辱没自己吗？
Demean you in some way that I do not comprehend?
我无意中贬低了你？