英语释义

1. to think of or treat (someone or something) as unimportant or not worthy of respect
The other children looked down on her because her parents were poor.

英汉例句

• 「while people like reading or watching tv about the lives of the rich and famous, they look down on people who have made money, 」 he says.

  尽管人们对电视、书本上的名人、富人的生活方式挺喜欢，但他们看不起有钱的人。

• the great kings look down on us from those stars.

  伟大的君王们正从星星上俯视我们。

• if you look down on people and treat them badly, they「ll retaliate and appear just as annoying and hostile as you expected.

  如果你瞧不起别人，待他们不好，他们就会回敬你，就会像你预料的那样显得令人讨厌，充满敌意。

• 」many people look down on this job. i do it because i have no other method to earn more money, 「 says a woman named ms. he, 24, from the northwestern chinese city of lanzhou.

  来自中国西北城市兰州的何女士说，很多人都看不起这种工作，我干这个只是因为没有别的法子能多赚点钱。

• i don’t think people will look down on you because you are serving the customers.

  我认为人家不会因为你服务他们而看不起你的。

• the great man’s verdict: 「dogs look up to you, cats look down on you.

  这位伟人的结论是：“狗敬仰你，而猫轻视你。

• on board, the best vantage point is from the gun-turret-like cupola whose six windows look down on a panoramic view of earth.

  在空间站观看景色最好的地方是在像炮台一样的圆顶上，透过六扇窗户能看到地球的全景。

• “sometimes they look down on people who don」t speak english,」 she said.

  她说：「有时他们看不起不说英语的人。」

• if your friends are all planning to work in the same field, but you choose another, i bet you dollars to donuts that at least a few of them will look down on you.

  如果你的朋友都打算找同样的工作但你却另有选择，我敢保证他们中至少会有一些人因此而看不起你。

• 「in britain, cinema still has generally a low cultural value, and in india it is a snobbish thing to look down on bollywood,」 dr bhugra laments.

  他满心遗憾地说，「在英国，电影一般仍然只有较低的文化价值，而在印度，人人都自命不凡地轻视宝莱坞。」

• see that you do not look down on one of these little ones.

  你们要小心，不可轻看这小子里的一个。

• 「people look down on us here,」 another recent arrival told me.

  「这里的人们看不起我们」，另一最近抵韩国的人告诉我。

• hothousing mothers with their endless kumon maths classes look down on the more laid-back ones who think children should do what they want, when they want.

  用无休止的公文式数学课对孩子进行超前教育的母亲们，瞧不起认为孩子应该想干什么，就干什么的懒散母亲。

• he seldom spoke, which caused the others to look down on him.

  他很少说话，这使得别人很轻视他。

• i had been raised not to look down on anyone and not to blame others for my own problems or shortcomings. that’s exactly what the new right message did.

  由于我的成长经历，我不会小瞧任何人，也不会因自己的问题或缺点去责备他人，这正和「新右翼」的做法相反。

• germans tend to like their western neighbors far more than they are liked by them, but they look down on their eastern neighbors, particularly poles.

  德国人对他们西边邻国的喜爱远大于其邻国居民对他们的喜爱，但是他们瞧不起东方邻国，尤其是波兰。

• perhaps that iswhy so many of the intellectual elite look down on those in trade and industry.

  或许，这也是为什么许多智识精英会瞧不起那些做贸易或产业工作的人。

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