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？
• 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 people!
  别小看人！
• 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。
• You really shouldn't look down on people like this.
  你不该这么小看人。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• She look down on the office girls she have work with.
  她瞧不起与她共事的女勤杂工。
• Squirrels and thrushes can only look down on us and smile.
  松鼠和画眉只能对迟钝的我们嗤之以鼻，微微一笑。