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

• 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 despise and look down on people.
  你瞧不起其他人。
• 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。
• 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？
• It's a secret window, and it'll look down on a secret garden.
  这是块秘密的窗户，并且从这向下望是块秘密的花园。
• Kate: don't look down on me just because I'm poor!
  凯伊：别因为我穷而看不起我！
• We should never look down on manual labor.
  我们决不应该轻视体力劳动。
• 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。
• I wish you wouldn't look down on this kind of work.
  我希望你不要看不起这种工作。
• 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？