deigned

英 [deɪnd]

美 [deɪnd]

v.  屈尊，俯就，降低身份(做某事)
deign的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 屈尊;俯就;降低身份
  If you say that someonedeignedto do something, you are expressing your disapproval of the fact that they did it unwillingly, because they thought they were too important to do it.
  1. At last, Harper deigned to speak...
     哈珀终于赏脸开了口。
  2. Weatherby didn't deign to reply.
     韦瑟比不屑回答。

双语例句

• Neither of the two men deigned to answer her question.
  二位男人都不蒙回答她的问题。
• The king deigned to read my letter.
  国王俯允读我的信。
• She spoke out about all of it, though the ANC seldom deigned to notice or reply.
  她大胆地说出了这些情况，然而非洲人国民大会很少赏脸给予注意和回复。
• Coincidentally, or not, Beijing has deigned to allow Taiwan observer status at the World Health Organisation's annual assembly, dropping its customary objection to the attendance of an island state it considers a mere province of China.
  巧合的是（或者并非巧合），北京已惠允台湾以观察员的身份出席世界卫生组织（WHO）年度大会，放弃了反对它认为只是自己一个省份的台湾参加该大会的一贯姿态。
• I obeyed; and hemmed, and called the villain Juno, who deigned, at this second interview, to move the extreme tip of her tail, in token of owning my acquaintance.
  我驯服地坐下来，清了清嗓子，又跟阿谁恶女人打号召，而此次，她屈尊动了动她辫子的最末稍，暗示接管我为熟人。
• At last, Harper deigned to speak
  哈珀终于赏脸开了口。
• He was reminded of van gogh's the starry night, which he had never deigned to give a thought but now understood.
  他想起了梵高的《星夜》，以前他一直对那种画不屑一顾：而现在他懂了。
• At the small scale, micro EI are deigned to deliver the ecological services from the regional EI into the urban fabric.
  在微观尺度上，通过地段设计，将区域EI的生态服务功能导引入城市肌理，并以此为基础，形成独特的城市土地利用模式。
• Sally took an old quilt out there to fashion a cozy nest, and Lucy deigned to take her ease upon it.
  莎莉拿一条旧被去，为她铺成一个舒适的窝，露西居然赏脸，在那上面休息。
• We deigned a Client/ Server based real estate management system under the analysis for the characteristics of house's management and sale, then the development environment and the application were presented.
  在分析了房地产楼盘管理与营销特点的基础上，提出了一个基于客户机/服务器结构的房地产管理系统设计方案，并给出了开发环境和应用实例。