demeans是什么意思？

demeans

• v. 使降低身份，使卑下( demean的第三人称单数 )；

例句

• Your phony school demeans real colleges everywhere! 你这个冒牌学校在诋毁真正的大学!
• She demeans herself by doing his dirty work. 她替他干卑鄙的勾当,贬低了自己的人格.
• The poverty of 10 million citizens not only demeans our society but its cost also hobbles our economy. 1,000万的贫困人口不仅给我们的社会抹黑，而且在这上面的支出也阻碍了我们的经济发展。
• Some groups say that pornography demeans women. 一些团体认为色情作品贬低了女性。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  降低(自己)的身份;有辱（自己）的人格
  If you demean yourself, you do something which makes people have less respect for you.
  例句
  I wasn't going to demean myself by acting like a suspicious wife. 我不会表现得像个疑神疑鬼的妻子一样自贬身价。
• VERB
  贬低;贬损
  To demean someone or something means to make people have less respect for them.
  例句
  Some groups say that pornography demeans women. 一些团体认为色情作品贬低了女性。