disparage

英 [dɪˈspærɪdʒ]

美 [dɪˈspærɪdʒ]

v.  贬低; 轻视

过去分词：disparaged　过去式：disparaged　第三人称单数：disparages　现在分词：disparaging　

TOEFLGREIELTS法律

BNC.21837 / COCA.17289

牛津词典

verb

• 贬低；轻视
  to suggest that sb/sth is not important or valuable
  1. I don't mean to disparage your achievements.
     我并不想贬低你的成就。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 贬低;轻视
  If youdisparagesomeone or something, you speak about them in a way which shows that you do not have a good opinion of them.
  1. ...Larkin's tendency to disparage literature.
     拉金贬低文学的倾向
  2. The tax cut is widely disparaged by senators from both parties as a budget gimmick.
     两个党派的参议员们普遍对作为预算噱头的税收削减嗤之以鼻。

英英释义

verb

• express a negative opinion of
  1. She disparaged her student's efforts
  Synonym:belittlepick at

双语例句

• But going to Turkey to criticise Israel and to disparage France and Germany, and then on to India to castigate Pakistan was not the best-laid plan.
  但跑到土耳其去批评以色列、诋毁法国和德国，然后又在印度斥责巴基斯坦，则不是什么上策。
• I do not mean to disparage the creativity involved in food production.
  我并不是要贬低食品生产中所包含的创造力。
• Other newspapers in the country tended to disparage this as'weak liberalism '.
  国内的其他报纸都把这种情形贬之为“软弱的自由主义”。
• Most of the people you deal with will dislike, disparage, belittle, or ignore what you say or do most of the time.
  你周围的大部分人大部分时间里会不喜欢、蔑视、轻视或忽略你所说的话或所做的事。
• Political correctness is a term generally used to disparage efforts to raise awareness about and eliminate social and political biases in language and other forms of representation.
  政治正确是指为了避免真实存在的或所谓的不公正的歧视而采用的变换另一种称呼的行为。
• They expound glorify their own doctrines, but as for the doctrines of others, they deprecate them, revile them, show contempt for them, disparage them.
  他们阐述、颂扬自己的教义，但是对于他人的教义，则贬低、辱骂、鄙视、毁谤。
• Temporal self-appraisal theory mentions that individuals tend to disparage the past self and compliment the present self, in order to maintain and enhance the present self-esteem.
  时间自我评价理论认为个体在对时间维度上的自我进行评价时，通常会贬低过去自我，使现在自我优于过去自我，以维护和提升现在的自尊。
• The research on leisure should not disparage, ignore or repel popular and secular leisure.
  休闲研究不应贬损、忽视、拒斥大众化、世俗化的休闲。
• Don't disparage good manners. Don't take it too hard. Let bygones be bygones.
  不要把礼貌不放在心上。
• People used to disparage a comet as "a disaster star".
  过去人们贬称彗星为“扫帚星”。