look down on

英 [lʊk daʊn ɒn]

美 [lʊk daʊn ɑːn]

蔑视; 轻视; 小看

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 蔑视；轻视；小看
  Tolook down onsomeone means to consider that person to be inferior or unimportant, usually when this is not true.
  1. I wasn't successful, so they looked down on me.
     我一无所成，所以他们瞧不起我。

英英释义

verb

• regard with contempt
  1. the new neighbor looks down on us because our house is very modest

双语例句

• Graduates may look down on these people, but who is getting the jobs?
  毕业生们可能看不起这些人，但是究竟谁能得到工作呢？
• The way people in the West have started to look down on walking is detectable in the language.
  在西方，人们对走路的轻视在语言中也有迹可循。
• What irritates me most is the way she seems to look down on me.
  最使我恼怒的是她似乎看不起我。
• Everybody look down on their own, but I can not give up!
  每个人都看不起自己，但我不能放弃！
• From the top of the bus you could look down on people below.
  从公共汽车的顶上，你可以俯视下面的人。
• Don't look down on the role women can play.
  不要瞧不起妇女的作用。
• We should never look down on manual labor.
  我们决不应该轻视体力劳动。
• His two kids look down on me, I am Vietnamese, so what?
  他的两个小孩看不起我，我是越南人又怎麽样？
• You really shouldn't look down on people like this.
  你不该这么小看人。
• I wasn't successful, so they looked down on me.
  我一无所成，所以他们瞧不起我。