demean是什么意思

双语例句

(1)The king demeaned the foreign emissary.

国王羞辱了这个外国的使者。

(2)This mean woman often demeans her neighbors.

这个刻薄的女人经常羞辱自己的邻居。

(3)Begging for your life in front of the enemy will demean you.

你在敌人面前求饶会辱没你的身份。

(4)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

(5)Such images demean women.

这些形象有损妇女尊严。

(6)I wouldn't demean myself by asking for charity.

我决不低三下四地乞求施舍。

(7)Such lier will demean you.

这样的谎言会贬低你的身分。

(8)He would not demean himself to a lazy worker.

他不愿降低身份当个懒工人。

(9)Let's not demean the role of being a follower.

我们不要小看追随者的作用。

同义词

vt. 贬低...的身分；举止

同根词

词根 demean

(1)demeaning adj. 降低身份的；有损人格的v. 有损…的人格（demean的ing形式）

(2)demeanor n. 风度；举止；行为

释义

v.

cause a severe loss in the dignity of and respect for (someone or something)

使失尊严，有辱…的人格，贬低

the poster was not demeaning to women

那海报并非贬低女性

I had demeaned the profession.

我辱没了这个职业。

(demean oneself)do something that is beneath one's dignity

自贬人格。

v.

archaic conduct oneself in a particular way

〈古〉 使举止显出一定特征

no man demeaned himself so honourably.

再没有人举止有他那么体面。

词源

"early 17th cent.: from DE- ‘away, down'＋the adjective MEAN2， on the pattern of debase．Middle English （also in the sense ‘manage, control’）： from Old French demener ‘to lead'， based on Latin de- ‘away'＋ minare ‘drive （animals）， drive on with threats' （from minari ‘threaten’）．"