slighting
adj. 轻视的,藐视的,忽视的
v. 轻蔑,忽视,怠慢( slight的现在分词 )
Something that is slight is very small in degree or quantity.
Doctors say he has made a slight improvement...
医生说他的病情稍有好转。
We have a slight problem...
我们有一个小小的问题。
A slight person has a fairly thin and delicate looking body.
She is smaller and slighter than Christie.
她比克里斯蒂瘦小。
...a slight, bespectacled figure.
身材瘦小、戴着眼镜的人
If you are slighted, someone does or says something that insults you by treating you as if your views or feelings are not important.
They felt slighted by not being adequately consulted.
没有充分征求他们的意见,这让他们感到被冷落了。
You use in the slightest to emphasize a negative statement.
That doesn't interest me in the slightest...
那一点也不能引起我的兴趣。
'Do you worry about ageing?' — 'Not in the slightest.'
“你担心变老吗?”——“一点也不。”
1. tending to diminish or disparage;
She should concern herself to prevent his slighting the children.
她还要当心阻止他丢掉小孩不管.
I am right in taking to task the historians for slighting this important development.
这些史学家忽略了这一重要发展,我对他们的指责是正确的.
He is right in taking the historians to task for slighting this imporatant development.
他对史学家忽略了这重要发展的指责是对的.