slighting
adj. 輕視的,藐視的,忽視的
v. 輕蔑,忽視,怠慢( slight的現在分詞 )
Something that is slight is very small in degree or quantity.
Doctors say he has made a slight improvement...
醫生說他的病情稍有好轉。
We have a slight problem...
我們有一個小小的問題。
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、戴著眼鏡的人
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.
沒有充分徵求他們的意見,這讓他們感到被冷落了。
You use in the slightest to emphasize a negative statement.
That doesn't interest me in the slightest...
那一點也不能引起我的興趣。
'Do you worry about ageing?' — 'Not in the slightest.'
“你擔心變老嗎?”——“一點也不。”
1. tending to diminish or disparage;
She should concern herself to prevent his slighting the children.
她還要當心阻止他丟掉小孩不管.
I am right in taking to task the historians for slighting this important development.
這些史學家忽略了這一重要發展,我對他們的指責是正確的.
He is right in taking the historians to task for slighting this imporatant development.
他對史學家忽略了這重要發展的指責是對的.