记忆方法
Demean：低名。降低名誉----贬低，降低。
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词族 · demean
中文词源
demean 贬低，贬损
de-, 向下。mean,下贱的。即使下贱，贬损。比较debase.
英语词源
- demean (v.)
- "lower in dignity," c. 1600, perhaps from de- "down" + mean (adj.) and modeled on debase. Indistinguishable in some uses from obsolete demean (see demeanor) which influenced it and may be its true source. Related: Demeaned; demeaning.
权威例句
- 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. I wouldn't demean myself by asking for charity.
- 我决不低三下四地乞求施舍。
- 3. Don't demean yourself by telling such obvious lies.
- 你不要用这种明显的谎言自贬人格.
- 4. Such lier will demean you.
- 这样的谎言会贬低你的身份.
- 5. He find it demean to ask his wife to support the family.
- 他觉得让妻子来养家虎口有损他的面子.