demean
vt. 使降低身份,使卑下
If you demean yourself, you do something which makes people have less respect for you.
I wasn't going to demean myself by acting like a suspicious wife.
我不會表現得像個疑神疑鬼的妻子一樣自貶身價。
To demean someone or something means to make people have less respect for them.
Some groups say that pornography demeans women.
一些團體認為色情作品貶低了女性。
1. reduce in worth or character, usually verbally;
I wouldn't demean myself by asking for charity.
我決不低三下四地乞求施捨。
Don't demean yourself by telling such obvious lies.
你不要用這種明顯的謊言自貶人格.
He felt he would demean himself if he replied to scurrilous letter.
他覺得如果他回覆那封充滿辱罵的信,會自貶身份.
Do you think he would demean himself by accepting a bribe?
你以為他會接受賄賂辱沒自己 嗎 ?
I wouldn't demean myself to ask for favours from them.
我不會降低身分向他們求情.