condescend
condescend
verb
condescension
noun
语源
verb
- [no obj.]show that one feels superior; patronize
显示优越感；以恩赐（或屈尊）的态度对待
take care not to condescend to your reader.
注意不要以高人一等的姿态对待你的读者。
■[with infinitive]do something in such a way as to emphasize that one clearly regards it as below one's dignity or level of importance
俯就；屈尊
we'll be waiting for twenty minutes before she condescends to appear.
在她屈尊露面之前，我们得等上20分钟。
condescension
noun
语源
- Middle English (in the sense 'give way, defer'): from Old French condescendre, from ecclesiastical Latin condescendere, from con- 'together' + descendere 'descend'
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