look down on

英 [lʊk daʊn ɒn]

美 [lʊk daʊn ɑːn]

蔑视; 轻视; 小看

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 蔑视；轻视；小看
  Tolook down onsomeone means to consider that person to be inferior or unimportant, usually when this is not true.
  1. I wasn't successful, so they looked down on me.
     我一无所成，所以他们瞧不起我。

英英释义

verb

• regard with contempt
  1. the new neighbor looks down on us because our house is very modest

双语例句

• You look down on everyone, consider them beneath you.
  你轻视别人，认为他们都不如你。
• Sarah: I don't.I look down on you because you're cheap!
  赛拉：我没有，我看不起你是因为你吝啬！
• You really shouldn't look down on people like this.
  你不该这么小看人。
• He put his hand on the post behind her so that he had her fenced in and could look down on her.
  他把手放在她身后的柱子上，这样就把她围在当中，可以低头看她了。
• So they like to have someone to look down on.
  所以通常会和一些低层人的比较。
• Kate: don't look down on me just because I'm poor!
  凯伊：别因为我穷而看不起我！
• Don't look down on others, in fact, you are not much better than they are.
  不要看不起别人，其实你并不比别人强到哪儿去。
• You despise and look down on people.
  你瞧不起其他人。
• At first, let me look down on country cousin, actually there are so many advantages and should I learn, I am ashamed.
  起初让我瞧不起的乡下表姐，居然有这么多的优点和值得我学习的地方，我很惭愧。
• I wish you wouldn't look down on this kind of work.
  我希望你不要看不起这种工作。