denigrate
音标：
美音：/ˈdenɪɡreɪt/，英音：/ˈdenɪɡreɪt/
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
When Francis delivered his apology here Monday for the church’s role in the residential school system, he noted how Indigenous languages and cultures had been “denigrated and suppressed.”
弗朗西斯周一在这里就教会在寄宿学校系统中的作用道歉时，他指出土著语言和文化是如何被“诋毁和压制”的。
—Washington Post
Putin reaffirmed his long-held claim that Russians and Ukrainians are part of a single people and again denigrated Ukraine as an “artificial state,” which received historic Russian lands from Communist rulers during the Soviet times.
普京重申了他长期以来的主张，即俄罗斯人和乌克兰人是同一民族的一部分，并再次诋毁乌克兰为一个“人造国家”，它在苏联时期从共产党统治者那里获得了具有历史意义的俄罗斯土地。
—Washington Times
Working in tandem with the state Republican Party, her campaign and other Republicans on the ticket prioritized voting in person on Election Day over voting by mail, which they regularly denigrated as fraud-ridden.
与州共和党合作，她的竞选团队和其他共和党人优先考虑在选举日亲自投票，而不是邮寄投票，他们经常诋毁邮寄投票，认为邮寄投票充满欺诈行为。
—New York Times
基本释意：
verb
charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
vt. 诋毁；使变黑；玷污
同义词：
asperse,besmirch,calumniate,defame,slander,smear,smirch,sully,belittle,derogate,minimize
短释义：
To denigrate is to say bad things — true or false — about a person or thing. Your reputation as a math whiz might be hurt if your jealous classmate manages to denigrate you, even though the accusations are unfounded.
诋毁就是对一个人或一件事说坏话——不管是真是假。如果你嫉妒的同学设法诋毁你，你作为数学天才的声誉可能会受到损害，即使这些指控是毫无根据的。
长释义：
The verb denigrate comes from the Latin word denigrare, which means “to blacken.” To sully or defame someone’s reputation, or to spread negative or hurtful information about a company or a situation, is to denigrate it. Your neighbors may denigrate your proposal for mandatory recycling in an attempt to stop your plan. Denigrate can also mean that you’re making something seem less important, like when your brother tries to denigrate your athletic achievements.
动词 denigrate 来自拉丁语 denigrare，意思是“变黑”。玷污或诽谤某人的名誉，或散布有关公司或情况的负面或有害信息，都属于诽谤。您的邻居可能会诋毁您的强制回收建议，以试图阻止您的计划。诋毁也可能意味着您让某些事情看起来不那么重要，例如当您的兄弟试图诋毁您的运动成绩时。
文学例句：
In his public statements, Mr. Gelb has consistently praised the artists and technicians at the Met, whereas many company members have denigrated their boss as overbearing and clueless.
在他的公开声明中，盖尔布先生一直在赞扬大都会艺术博物馆的艺术家和技术人员，而许多公司成员却诋毁他们的老板专横且无知。
—Let’s Talk About Risk at the Metropolitan Opera by Anthony Tommasini
And they don’t denigrate that person—they honor her.
他们不会诋毁那个人——他们尊重她。
—Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides
Revered for his contributions to First Amendment jurisprudence, Holmes nonetheless denigrated those whose views he would protect as “poor and puny anonymities.”
福尔摩斯因其对第一修正案法理学的贡献而备受尊敬，尽管如此，他还是将那些他将保护其观点的人贬低为“可怜而微不足道的匿名者”。
—The Many Contradictions of Oliver Wendell Holmes by ???
词源：
denigrate (v.)1520s, "to sully or stain" (the reputation, character, etc.), from Latin denigratus, past participle of denigrare "to blacken; to defame," from de- "completely" (see de-) + nigr-, stem of niger "black" (see Negro), which is of unknown origin.The figurative sense is oldest in English; the literal sense of "blacken, make black" is recorded from 1620s. But denigrate as a past-participle adjective meaning "darkened, discolored" is attested from early 15c. "Apparently disused in 18th c. and revived in 19th c." [OED]. Related: Denigrated; denigrating.Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
denigrate (v.)1520s，“玷污或玷污”（声誉、性格等），来自拉丁语 denigratus，denigrare 的过去分词“变黑；诽谤”，来自 de-“完全”（参见 de-） + nigr-，尼日尔“黑色”的词干（参见 Negro），来源不明。比喻意义在英语中最古老； “blacken, make black”的字面意义是从 1620 年代开始记录的。但 denigrate 作为过去分词形容词，意思是“变暗、变色”，这在 15 世纪初得到证实。 “显然在 18 世纪废弃，并在 19 世纪复兴。” [牛津英语词典]。相关：诋毁；诋毁。相关条目及更多
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