词汇 | abasing |
释义 | abasing present participle ofabase abase verb formaluk /əˈbeɪs/ us /əˈbeɪs/ abase yourself to make yourself seem to be less important or to not deserve respect贬低自己;卑躬屈膝 Humiliating and degrading abase abasement be under a cloudidiom bring/take someone down a peg (or two)idiom bruise someone's egoidiom debase dishonour dishonourable dishonourably doghouse exhibition ignominious ignominiously ignominy in the doghouseidiom indignity shoddy stoop stoop to something undignified Related wordabasement Examples of abasingabasing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. We then find the politicians abasing themselves and saying how much they got it wrong and how right they are to say how much they got it wrong. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In his poem he attacks womankind, abasing them as vile and disgusting creatures. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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