demean
音标：
英音/ dɪˈmiːn / 美音/ dɪˈmiːn /
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
“Can any sophisticated religion, with such a huge following, really go on and on into the future with such a secondary, demeaning role for women?” he asks.
“任何复杂的宗教，拥有如此众多的追随者，真的能够在未来继续让女性扮演如此次要的、有辱人格的角色吗？”他问道。
—BBC
Initially, Tate presented himself as charming, but Ms Stern alleges that his behaviour quickly turned demeaning and threatening.
最初，泰特表现得很有魅力，但斯特恩女士声称，他的行为很快就变得有辱人格和威胁性。
—BBC
It made it illegal to “write, send, or share any information through a computer, which is likely to ridicule, degrade, or demean another person, group of persons, a tribe, an ethnicity, a religion or gender”.
它规定“通过计算机编写、发送或共享任何可能嘲笑、贬低或贬低他人、群体、部落、种族、宗教或性别的信息”都是非法的。
—BBC
基本释意：
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贬低…的身份；使…失去尊严
同义词：
没有找到同义词
短释义：
If you noticed the word mean in demean, that’s a good clue to its meaning. To demean someone is very mean. You are demeaning your sister or brother if you run their underwear up a flagpole. A teacher could demean a student by saying “You’re stupid!” To demean is to insult: no one wants to be demeaned. Insulting language is often called demeaning. We can also say a bad president demeaned his office.
贬低某人就是侮辱他们。贬低是贬低或贬低一个人或事物。
长释义：
If you noticed the word mean in demean, that’s a good clue to its meaning. To demean someone is very mean. You are demeaning your sister or brother if you run their underwear up a flagpole. A teacher could demean a student by saying “You’re stupid!” To demean is to insult: no one wants to be demeaned. Insulting language is often called demeaning. We can also say a bad president demeaned his office.
如果你注意到 demean 中的mean这个词，那就是了解其含义的一个很好的线索。贬低某人是非常卑鄙的。如果你把你的姐妹或兄弟的内衣放在旗杆上，你就是在贬低他们。老师可以通过说“你真笨！”来贬低学生。贬低就是侮辱：没有人愿意被贬低。侮辱性语言通常被称为贬低。我们也可以说，一位糟糕的总统贬低了他的办公室。
文学例句：
He is suspicious of my doings with women, although he will not demean himself by saying so.
他怀疑我对女人的所作所为，尽管他不会这样说而贬低自己。
—Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
“I felt that I was behind the progress curve. I was demeaned by my peers—‘Giebel, you rich dog, what are you gonna do, eat it?’
“我觉得自己落后于进步曲线。我被同龄人贬低了——‘吉贝尔，你这个有钱的狗，你要做什么，吃掉它吗？’
—Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream by H.G. Bissinger
He cannot understand how the white man can show the most demeaning aspects of his nature and at the same time delude himself into thinking he is inherently superior.
他无法理解白人如何能够表现出他本性中最有辱人格的方面，同时又欺骗自己认为自己天生就优越。
—Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
词源：
demean(v.)”to lower in dignity, lower the standing of, debase,” c. 1600, perhaps from de- “down” + mean (adj.) and modeled on debase. It is indistinguishable in some uses from obsolete demean (Middle English, from Old French demener; see demeanor) which likely influenced it and might be its ultimate source. It was much-criticized in late 19c. by purists (Fitzedward Hall, etc.), and Century Dictionary (1897) reports “the word is avoided by scrupulous writers.” Related: Demeaned; demeaning.also from c. 1600
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
demean(v.)“降低尊严、降低地位、贬低” c． 1600，可能源自 de-“down”+mean（形容词），并以 debase 为蓝本。在某些用法中，它与过时的 demean（中古英语，源自古法语 demener；参见 demeanor）无法区分，后者可能影响了它，也可能是它的最终来源。它在 19 世纪末受到了很多批评。纯粹主义者（Fitzedward Hall 等）和《世纪词典》（1897）报道“谨慎的作家避免使用这个词”。相关：贬低；贬低。也来自c。 1600
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