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

• Now do not for a moment mean to disparage business.
  如今，我一点也没有瞧不起做生意。
• 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。
• Most of the people you deal with will dislike, disparage, belittle, or ignore what you say or do most of the time.
  你周围的大部分人大部分时间里会不喜欢、蔑视、轻视或忽略你所说的话或所做的事。
• People used to disparage a comet as "a disaster star".
  过去人们贬称彗星为“扫帚星”。
• But going to Turkey to criticise Israel and to disparage France and Germany, and then on to India to castigate Pakistan was not the best-laid plan.
  但跑到土耳其去批评以色列、诋毁法国和德国，然后又在印度斥责巴基斯坦，则不是什么上策。
• Influenced by the thought of post-modernism philosophy, especially the knowledge view of post-modernism, some people disparage the function and value of the scientific knowledge education in the new curriculum reform.
  受后现代主义哲学思潮尤其是后现代知识观的影响，在我国新课改过程中，响起了贬低科学知识教育作用与价值的声音。
• 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。
• Amendments ix: the enumeration in the constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
  第九条：本宪法对某些权利的列举，不得被解释为否定或轻视由人民保留的其他权利。
• They expound glorify their own doctrines, but as for the doctrines of others, they deprecate them, revile them, show contempt for them, disparage them.
  他们阐述、颂扬自己的教义，但是对于他人的教义，则贬低、辱骂、鄙视、毁谤。
• 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。