demean

verb

1. 降低身份；失去尊重
   to do sth that makes people have less respect for you
   1. I wouldn't demean myself by asking for charity.
      我决不低三下四地乞求施舍。
2. 贬低；贬损；使失尊严
   to make people have less respect for sb/sth
   1. Such images demean women.
      这些形象有损妇女尊严。

1. VERB 降低(自己)的身份;有辱（自己）的人格
   If you demean yourself, you do something which makes people have less respect for you.
   1. 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。
2. VERB 贬低;贬损
   To demean someone or something means to make people have less respect for them.
   1. Some groups say that pornography demeans women.
      一些团体认为色情作品贬低了女性。

1. 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。
2. He would not demean himself to a lazy worker.
   他不愿降低身份当个懒工人。
3. But we do this whenever we dismiss or demean or complain about the church.
   但是每当我们轻视教会、贬抑教会、抱怨教会时，我们便是如此做。
4. 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。
5. I wouldn't demean myself by asking my father for money.
   我不会降低自己身分去向父亲要钱。
6. Advertisements like this demean women.
   这类广告有辱妇女的人格。
7. That is to demean our humanity because there are always options, always choices, always solutions that human ingenuity can summon, he said.
   他说：那是在贬低我们的人性，因为人类的智慧可以让我们永远有选择的权利，永远有选择的机会，永远有解决的方法。
8. You will demean yourself if you agree to the terms of the contract.
   要是同意契约的条款，就等于瞧不起自己。
9. 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。
10. 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。
11. Don't demean yourself by shouting at your brother.
    不要冲你兄弟大喊大叫而自贬身份。
12. Based on these concerns, the insecure manager might overexert authority, demean the high performer's contributions, or even take credit for much of the high performer's work.
    基于这些考虑不安的主管可能过度使用他的权威，贬低优秀人才的贡献，甚至将他们的成果据为己有。
13. He find it very demean to have to work for his former employee.
    他觉得要为他以前的雇员工作很失身分。
14. 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。
15. 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。
16. Do you think he would demean himself by accepting a bribe?
    你以为他会接受贿赂辱没自己吗？
17. I wouldn't demean myself to ask for favours from them.
    我不会降低身分向他们求情。
18. But this gentleman is no spy, and why should he so demean himself as to make himself one? 'But with my name, and with my little means, what am I to look to?
    这位先生既不是密探，又何苦降低身份去刺探别人的隐私呢。但是凭我现在的身份，凭我这一点家私，我能指望什么？
19. 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。
20. Demean you in some way that I do not comprehend?
    我无意中贬低了你？

verb

1. reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
   1. She tends to put down younger women colleagues
   2. His critics took him down after the lecture

   Synonym:    take downdegradedisgraceput down