记忆方法
记住“patronize”可以通过拆解词根来帮助记忆。首先，将单词拆分为“patron”和“-ize”。“Patron”表示“资助者”或“顾客”，而“-ize”是一个动词后缀，表示使……化。所以，想象一个顾客走进一个店铺，店主用一种高人一等的态度对待他，这种态度就是“patronize”（资助者似的对待或以优越感对待）。
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词族 · patronize
中文词源
patronize 赞助，保护，屈尊
来自patron,赞助，保护，-ize,使。后引申贬义词义屈尊，像别人的父亲的。
英语词源
- patronize (v.)
- 1580s, "to act as a patron towards," from patron + -ize, or from Old French patroniser. Meaning "treat in a condescending way" is first attested 1797; sense of "give regular business to" is from 1801. Related: Patronized; patronizing.
权威例句
- 1. Don't you patronize me!
- 别在我面前摆出一副屈尊俯就的样子！
- 2. Some television programmes tend to patronize children.
- 有些电视节目往往以大人的观点对待儿童。
- 3. I'll never patronize that store again.
- 我再也不去光顾那家商店了.
- 4. We patronize our neighbourhood stores.
- 我们通常到邻近的商店采买.
- 5. The ladies of Berne liked to patronize the Palace for tea and little cakes.
- 伯尔尼的女士们喜欢去联邦宫殿用茶点。