demean

demean

美 [dɪˈmin] 　英 [dɪˈmiːn]

• v.降低身份；失去尊重；贬低；贬损
• 网络贬抑；贬低身份；贬低身分

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So do not demean yourselves thinking that you are without value, as you are yet to learn the truth about yourselves.

所以不要“贬低”你的个人价值，因为你也已学会关于自身的真相了。

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。

She need not demean herself any more, going into the shops and buying the cheapest food. This was at an end.

她更不必自贬身价亲自去购买廉价食品吃，一切都就此了结。

He felt he would demean himself if he replied to the scurrilous letter.

他觉得如果他回复那封充满辱骂的信，会自贬身份。

One does not wish to see one's colleagues demean themselves in this way.

谁也不想看到自己的同事这样放下身段。

But I don't demean the fact that this is relevant to life.

但我不贬低，这与生活息息相关的事实。

So I don't demean that any more than I demean soap operas.

所以我不贬低它，我更瞧不起肥皂剧。

Participants who had both status and power did not greatly demean their partners.

既有地位又有权力的参与者并不会太侮辱其同伴。

Stone insists that he was "not out to demean or hurt the man . . . We set out to show his reasoning for the Iraq War. "

Stone强调说他“无意贬低或者伤害这个男人。。。我们决心展示他发动伊拉克战争的理由。”

Will my few minutes with Maya change our multibillion dollar beauty industry, reality shows that demean women, our celebrity-manic culture?

我与Maya的几分钟能改变我们数十亿美元的美容美发业、那些贬抑女性的真人秀、我们的疯狂追星的文化吗？

"Don't demean the profession" by implying that you can rate teachers with numbers, he says.

他表示，不要总说老师是按照分数进行评价的，这是在“贬低这项职业”。

"It would take a lot more than comics to demean his stature, " said Samuel.

“漫画不会贬低他的声望，”塞缪尔说。

The duke 's son would not demean himself by working.

公爵的儿子不愿意由于工作而降低自己的身分。

Does it demean women's dignity or boost women's autonomy and impendence when we treat uterus as a means and businesslike of reproduction?

代孕将子宫工具化、生殖商业化，是贬低了女性的尊严还是促进了女性的独立自主？。

No matter how we may demean ourselves, we find embarrassments everywhere.

无论我们如何低三下四，也摆脱不了无处不在的窘迫难堪。

To be rude is to demean oneself.

态度无礼是自贬身分

Never insult, embarrass, shame, yell at or otherwise demean a person.

所以，千万不要对一个人进行侮辱、羞辱或者对其大吼，让其尴尬等。

Don't demean yourself by telling such obvious lies.

你不要用这种明显的谎言自贬人格。

People there just don't demean themselves like that.

那儿的人才不会这样自降身份。

I will not demean myself by cheating on the examination.

我不会因考试作弊而使自己丢脸。

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. ~David Sarnoff.

我们不能消除危险，但是我可以放逐恐惧。我们不能因为悟出死亡而贬低生命。

From the get-go, that is the last thing we had in mind. . . How can we celebrate Chinese women if we demean Chinese women?

从一开始，我们就没有想过要贬低中国女性。我们怎么能一边赞美中国女性，一边贬低中国女性呢？

I wouldn't demean myself by asking my father for money.

我可不会降低自己身份去向父亲要钱。

attempting to demean the witness by asking all sorts of extraneous questions about his personal life

想以问各种题外的私人问题来贬低证人的人格

To demean oneself by doing sth. Dishonorable

为了做某件不名誉的事而贬低了身份