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