condescend
英 [ˌkɒndɪˈsend]
美 [ˌkɑːndɪˈsend]
v. 屈尊; 俯就; (对某人)表现出优越感
过去式：condescended 第三人称单数：condescends 过去分词：condescended 现在分词：condescending
BNC.34810 / COCA.28540
牛津词典
verb
- 屈尊；俯就
to do sth that you think it is below your social or professional position to do- We had to wait almost an hour before he condescended to see us.
我们等了几乎一小时他才屈尊大驾来见我们。
- We had to wait almost an hour before he condescended to see us.
- （对某人）表现出优越感
to behave towards sb as though you are more important and more intelligent than they are- When giving a talk, be careful not to condescend to your audience.
发表讲话时，注意别对听众表现出高人一等的样子。
- When giving a talk, be careful not to condescend to your audience.
英英释义
verb
- treat condescendingly
- debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way
- I won't stoop to reading other people's mail
- do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
- behave in a patronizing and condescending manner
双语例句
- Don't condescend to me.
别在我面前摆架子。 - We condescend if we speak of it as a phenomenon of the poor.
如果我们说这是贫穷的现象那是我们屈尊了。 - It'd be very kind of you to condescend to take this post.
要是您肯屈就，那是太好了。 - You'd better condescend upon particulars.
你最好详述其情。 - Yet even as he declines to submit, he does condescend nonetheless to give an explanation of the philosophical way of life in terms that his fellow Athenians might understand.
然而，纵使苏格拉底拒绝屈从，但是他也屈尊俯就，明确地给出了哲学的生活方式之解释，此种解释他的同胞雅典人或许能理解。 - He talked now, freely enough; and she presently saw fit to retreat to her solitude: but the frost had set in, and, in spite of her pride, she was forced to condescend to our company, more and more.
现在他说话了，挺随便；她立刻看出还是回去守着她的孤寂合适些：但已开始下霜了，她虽然骄傲，也被迫渐渐地和我们接近了。 - Such, moreover, is the complexity of life, that when we condescend upon details in our advice, we may be sure we condescend on error;
这样，而且，是生命的复杂性，即当我们在我们的建议详情垂询，我们可以肯定我们在错误屈尊； - Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend.
在猫面前要降格相待有如朋友。 - Some people will never condescend to help their wives with the housework.
一些人从不肯屈尊就驾帮他们的妻子料理家事。 - Many critics attended the movie and prepared to condescend, but the movie could not be dismissed: It was so joyous and original that even the early reviews acknowledged it as something special.
许多评论家屈尊出席了首映礼。尽管如此，人们却不能无视它的存在：影片欢快无比，又创意十足，连时评也不得不承认它与众不同。