Demean
[dɪ'miːn]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To manage; to conduct; to treat.
(v. t.) To conduct; to behave; to comport; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.
(v. t.) To debase; to lower; to degrade; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.
(v. t.) Management; treatment.
(v. t.) Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor.
(n.) Demesne.
(n.) Resources; means.
錄入:勒达
同義詞及反義詞：
[See BEHAVE_and_CONDESCEND]
整理:威尔伯
解釋/意思:
v.t. to conduct (with self): to behave.—n. Demeanour conduct—(Spens.) Demayne Demeasnure.
v.t. to make mean: to lower.
奥德丽整理
例句/造句/用法:
- Think you that a thern would demean himself by labour? 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- He hesitated whether to address the King as the Black Knight-errant, or in what other manner to demean himself towards him. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I know there's one thing vulgar about money, and that's the thinking about it; and my wife would never have to demean herself in that way. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- It was, of course, Mrs. Sedley's opinion that her son would demean himself by a marriage with an artist's daughter. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I argued that if I had been rude, apologies was due, and those apologies without a question of demeaning, I did make. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- A narrow life in Budmouth might have completely demeaned her. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- During this performance, the hermit demeaned himself much like a first-rate critic of the present day at a new opera. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- For long intervals I forgot to look how he demeaned himself, or to question what he thought. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Sir, she demeaned herself with distinction; and I heard the French gentlemen say she was 'pétrie d'esprit et de graces. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
錄入:斯科特