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

• 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。
• 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》。
• A communication that belittles somebody or something.
  低估某人或某物的信息交流。
• It belittles by inverting the relative importance of things, thus dwarfing the thoughts and aspirations of a people.
  它通过反演轻旳相对重要性旳东西，这样旳想法和愿望下显得&个人。
• 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。
• But the existence of government's recessive guarantee makes the subordinated debt like the deposit that has a channel to shift away the risk and then belittles its market discipline on the commercial banks.
  但政府隐性担保的存在使次级债券找到了一条类似银行存款一样的风险转嫁渠道，弱化了其风险约束功能。
• 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。
• 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。
• On the curriculum value, it emphasizes social subject, belittles the individual;
  课程价值观上，重社会、学科价值，轻个人价值；
• 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。