demeans

英 [dɪˈmiːnz] 美 [dɪˈmiːnz]

v.  降低身份; 失去尊重; 贬低; 贬损; 使失尊严
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  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。
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双语例句

  1. The poverty of 10 million citizens not only demeans our society but its cost also hobbles our economy.
    1,000万的贫困人口不仅给我们的社会抹黑，而且在这上面的支出也阻碍了我们的经济发展。
  2. The hodgepodge system we have now demeans nearly all those who touch it.
    目前这种杂乱的体系，会让几乎所有接触到它的人都有失身份。
  3. 2 sexist language is any language, whether written or oral, which by its use, form or structure demeans people on account of their gender.
    性别歧视语言指的是任何通过其用法、形式或结构来贬低他人性别的语言，无论它存在于口语还是书面语。
  4. Such behaviour demeans yourself in others'eyes.
    这种行为能贬低你在别人眼里的身份。
  5. Don't you see how this demeans me?
    你不明白这对我意味着什么吗？
  6. She demeans herself by doing his dirty work.
    他得荣誉，我们做不讨好的工作。
  7. This shabby proxy war demeans all involved.
    这一卑鄙的代理人战争贬低参与各方的身份。
  8. A person who demeans and belittle you and speaks of you with contempt to others is probably going to be that way for years.
    一个贬低你，瞧不起你的人，一个对别人用轻蔑的态度提起你的人可能会一直这样。
  9. It could provoke a public tit-for-tat between the two parties that ultimately demeans the coalition.
    它可以掀起两党之间的公开斗争从而贬损联合政府。
  10. It said US President Barack Obama was "legally responsible" for clarifying "the fate of our father" and that the sea burial "demeans and humiliates his family and his supporters".
    它说美国总统奥巴马在法律上有责任对我们父亲的命运做出解释，并且海葬是对本·拉登家人以及他的支持者的蔑视和侮辱。
  11. Another statement appeared on a jihadist website saying the burial of Bin Laden at sea "demeans and humiliates his family".
    出现在圣战网站上的另一份声明则认为本·拉登的海葬是“贬低和羞辱他的家人”。
  12. We are living in an age that prizes competition and demeans cooperation, an era more narcissistic than the Gilded Age, more hubristic than the age of Jackson.
    我们生活在一个重视竞争而轻视合作的时代，一个比镀金时代（GildedAge）更加自恋的时代，一个比杰克逊时代（theageofJackson）更加自大。
  13. Because it demeans what we're doing here.
    我们在这里做的可不是什么好事情。
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