vt. 轻视，贬低（belittle 的过去式和过去分词）
belittle /bɪˈlɪtəl/ [ belittling belittled belittles ]
及物动词 If you belittle someone or something, you say or imply that they are unimportant or not very good. 轻视
We mustn't belittle her outstanding achievement.
我们不应该轻视她的杰出成就。
贬抑
... ashamed 羞愧 belittled 轻视 degraded 贬低 ...
She felt her husband constantly belittled her achievements.
她觉得她的丈夫时常贬低她的成就。
1940's swing was belittled by beboppers of the 1950's who were themselves attacked by free jazzes of the 1960's.
二十世纪五十年代的比波普派轻视二十世纪四十年代的摇摆音乐派，而他们自己又受到二十世纪六十年代的自由爵士派的抨击。
Her beliefs were pilloried and belittled.
她的信仰被大家所嘲笑和贬低。
He thinks it is important enough to risk being belittled, even by an admirer, like me.
The Bush administration has also belittled those threats and so allowed them to grow.
Capriles, an athletic 40-year-old state governor, had mocked and belittled Maduro as a poor, bland imitation of Chavez.