Condescend
condescend
Y
不擺架子;屈尊[+to-v]
帶著優越感表示親切[(+to)];以恩賜態度對待[+to-v]
D
–verb (used without object)
1. to behave as if one is conscious of descending from a superior position, rank, or dignity.
2. to stoop or deign (屈尊俯就) to do something:
He would not condescend to misrepresent the facts.
3.
to put aside one's dignity or superiority voluntarily and
assume equality
with one regarded as inferior:
He condescended to [their intellectual level] in order to be understood.
4. Obsolete.
a. to yield.
b. to assent.
As a man, I would hate to have my taste[s] condescended [to] by the opposite of Chick Lit, which, according to Gloria Steinem, is Prick Lit. I read Jane Austen for a simple reason, not gender-related: I cannot put her down and often return to her in times of trouble.
genuflect
prostrate
He prostrated himself before rank and wealth.
progeny
scion
descend
下來,下降,為...的後裔
feign
play possum
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