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 demean [dɪ'min]   添加此单词到默认生词本
vt. 贬低身分, 贬损

  1. Don't demean yourself by telling such obvious lies.
    你不要用这种明显的谎言自贬人格.
  2. I wouldn't demean myself to ask for favours from them.
    我不会降低身分向他们求情.
  3. He find it demean to ask his wife to support the family.
    他觉得让妻子来养家虎口有损他的面子。


demean


Demean \De*mean"\, n. [OF. demene. See {Demean}, v. t.]
1. Management; treatment. [Obs.]

Vile demean and usage bad. --Spenser.

2. Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor. [Obs.]

With grave demean and solemn vanity. --West.


Demean \De*mean"\, n. [See {Demesne}.]
1. Demesne. [Obs.]

2. pl. Resources; means. [Obs.]

You know
How narrow our demeans are. --Massinger.


Demean \De*mean"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Demeaned}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Demeaning}.] [OF. demener to conduct, guide, manage, F.
se d['e]mener to struggle; pref. d['e]- (L. de) + mener to
lead, drive, carry on, conduct, fr. L. minare to drive
animals by threatening cries, fr. minari to threaten. See
{Menace}.]
1. To manage; to conduct; to treat.

[Our] clergy have with violence demeaned the matter.
--Milton.

2. To conduct; to behave; to comport; -- followed by the
reflexive pronoun.

They have demeaned themselves
Like men born to renown by life or death. --Shak.

They answered . . . that they should demean
themselves according to their instructions.
--Clarendon.

3. To debase; to lower; to degrade; -- followed by the
reflexive pronoun.

Her son would demean himself by a marriage with an
artist's daughter. --Thackeray.

Note: This sense is probably due to a false etymology which
regarded the word as connected with the adjective mean.

  1. Not even Soviet pseudo-history can demean these monuments to the wealth accumulated in 14th-century Samarkand by Tamerlane. Timur-the-lame, self-styled heir to Genghis Khan, did not build them himself.
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