However, some of the machines' traditional tasks have been shifted to lower-cost computers in many corporate networks, leading rivals to denigrate the mainframe as a dinosaur. 然而在许多集成网络中,一些原本应是大型机的任务已改由低成本的计算机来完成了。这使得竞争者们将大型机看成是已灭绝的恐龙。
Our business is highly competitive, and we aggressively seek to expand our client relationships. However, we must always be fair competitors and must never denigrate other firms. 我们的行业竞争激烈,故此我们积极进取地寻求扩展与客户的关系。但我们坚决秉承公平竞争的原则,绝不会诋毁竞争对手。
Denigrate \Den"i*grate\, v. t. [L. denigrare; de- + nigrare to blacken, niger black.] 1. To blacken thoroughly; to make very black. --Boyle.
2. Fig.: To blacken or sully; to defame. [R.]
To denigrate the memory of Voltaire. --Morley.
On the other hand, I don't think we should sit here and denigrate the whole system because by and large I think the whole system has always worked reasonably well.
He didn't denigrate children by treating them as either a lower or a higher form of the species.
Your editorials have led a campaign to attack and denigrate "quotas."
These promise to be similar to ones in the past that quote passages from the Scriptures only to denigrate them in vicious commentaries next to the texts.