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

• 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。
• You disparage me, call me less than caesar?
  你蔑视我，我比不上凯撒？
• Those who disparage Brutus are talking of his shadow.
  那些批评布鲁塔士的人谈的是他的影子。
• As a result of all sorts of reasons, people generally disparage and neglect the tacit knowledge and its function, but the tacit knowledge is actually the important understanding origin.
  由于种种原因，人们对缄默知识及其作用普遍贬低与忽视，但缄默知识却是认识的重要来源。
• We must get rid of the bad habit of writers who like to disparage one another.
  我们必须清除文人相轻的坏习气。
• I agree, but then he went on to say that government's role is not to disparage wealth, but to expand its reach.
  我同意这种说法，但他进而指出，政府的职责不是贬低财富，而是使更多人享有财富。
• It was Tun-weng himself who was dissatisfied with her and who had thus resorted to this veiled manner to disparage her.
  是遯翁自己对她不满意，所以用这种皮里阳秋的笔法来褒贬。
• The left accuses it of ripping off taxpayers to save Wall Street, the right damns it as socialism; economists disparage its technicalities, political scientists its sweeping powers.
  左翼势力控诉该计划无异于抢劫纳税人的钱财去救助华尔街，右翼势力谴责该计划为社会主义运动；经济学家鄙视计划的学术性，政治科学家崇拜它横扫一切的强大威力。
• Not only was I able to disparage their colour schemes but I could also play armchair psychologist and declare what it all meant.
  我不仅能够对他们的色彩方案指指点点，还能扮演一位纸上谈兵的心理学家，解读其中含义。
• 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。