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

• So they like to have someone to look down on.
  所以通常会和一些低层人的比较。
• Don't look down on the role women can play.
  不要瞧不起妇女的作用。
• He put his hand on the post behind her so that he had her fenced in and could look down on her.
  他把手放在她身后的柱子上，这样就把她围在当中，可以低头看她了。
• That people look down on you, and then you behave like a peasant.
  别人看不起你，你就做的更象个乡下人。
• Take a step forward, or you can't look down on his grave.
  向前走一步，否则你无法往下看到他的坟墓。
• At first, let me look down on country cousin, actually there are so many advantages and should I learn, I am ashamed.
  起初让我瞧不起的乡下表姐，居然有这么多的优点和值得我学习的地方，我很惭愧。
• 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。
• 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。
• We should never look down on manual labor.
  我们决不应该轻视体力劳动。
• She look down on the office girls she have work with.
  她瞧不起与她共事的女勤杂工。