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 demeaning [di'mi:niŋ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 降低身份的,有辱人格的

  1. It is demeaning to say that beauty alone determines one's worth .
    如果说凭美貌决定一个人的价值的话,这就有失公道了。
  2. He found it very demeaning to have to work for his former employee.
    他觉得要为他以前的雇员工作很失身分.
  3. Far from demeaning nature, this exercise reveals how much we depend on it.
    从这样的行动中,我们会发现自己对自然界的依赖,因而不会轻忽它。


demeaning
[ adj ]
causing awareness of your shortcomings
<adj.all>
golf is a humbling game


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.

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