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

• From the top of the bus you could look down on people below.
  从公共汽车的顶上，你可以俯视下面的人。
• And to the Chinese, don't look down on us!
  还有，中国人，不要小瞧了我们！
• Take a step forward, or you can't look down on his grave.
  向前走一步，否则你无法往下看到他的坟墓。
• 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。
• The African countries and peoples, having stood up, dare to look down on superpower hegemonism.
  已经站立起来的非洲国家和人民敢于藐视超级大国的霸权主义。
• His two kids look down on me, I am Vietnamese, so what?
  他的两个小孩看不起我，我是越南人又怎麽样？
• She look down on the office girls she have work with.
  她瞧不起与她共事的女勤杂工。
• We should never look down on manual labor.
  我们决不应该轻视体力劳动。
• The way people in the West have started to look down on walking is detectable in the language.
  在西方，人们对走路的轻视在语言中也有迹可循。
• 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！