及物动词使降低身份，使卑下
1. 贬抑,降低：deliberate 熟思,考虑,有意,存心的 | demean 贬抑,降低 | demerit 短处,过失,缺点
2. 自贬;降低：scooter 踏板车 | demean 自贬;降低 | demeanour 行为, 举止
3. 行为：demasculinization 男性症丧失 | demean 行为 | dement 使发疯
4. 举止：deme 阿提卡市区 | demean 举止 | demeanour 行为
1. 降低(自己)的身份;有辱（自己）的人格
If you demean yourself, you do something which makes people have less respect for you.
e.g. I wasn't going to demean myself by acting like a suspicious wife.
我不会表现得像个疑神疑鬼的妻子一样自贬身价。
2. 贬低;贬损
To demean someone or something means to make people have less respect for them.
e.g. Some groups say that pornography demeans women.
一些团体认为色情作品贬低了女性。
1. 911chaxun查询·英语单词
1. So they can't really denigrate or demean people using those old stereotypes.
2. Before our valued readers start getting ideas, this is not to demean the single tragedy of the lovers Romeo and Juliet.
3. But it does not mean that teachers can make fun of or demean a person or group of persons to clarify their points.