cheapen
['tʃi:pən]
v.降低,贬低,(使)降价
例句与用法:
Misconduct that cheapened a high office.
身居要职却做出的有损威信的错误行为
It's only cheapening yourself to behave like that.
那样做只能使你自贬身价。
词形变化:
名词: cheapener | 动词过去式: cheapened | 动词过去分词: cheapened | 动词现在分词: cheapening | 动词第三人称单数: cheapens |
vt.
1. 降低……的价格, 使便宜
2. 使受人轻视; 贬低
By your dishonesty you've cheapened yourself in everyone's opinion.
你为人不诚实, 使自己被众人看不起。
3. 使变得低劣
4. 【古】为……讨价还价
vi.
跌价, 减价
Food cheapens in summer.
食品在夏天跌价。
cheapen
过去式:cheapened
过去分词:cheapened
现在进行时:cheapening
词形变化:
名词: cheapener | 动词过去式: cheapened | 动词过去分词: cheapened | 动词现在分词: cheapening | 动词第三人称单数: cheapens |
词义辨析:
同义:
v.使・・・减价, 跌价
lower
depreciate
reduce
discount
slash
cut
mark down
budget price
v.降低威信(地位)
belittle
humiliate
mortify
shame
scorn
misprize
disgrace
detract from
disparage
scoff at
degrade
downgrade
diminish
同义参见:
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cheapen['tʃi:pən]vt.1.■使…降价,削价,减低…的价格:We have to cheapen commodities at the moment.目前我们只好使商品削价。2.■贬低,看不起,使受人轻视:It's only cheapening yourself to behave like that.那样做只能使你自贬身价。3.■使质量降低,使低劣;丑化:In no case can we cheapen the quality of products.在任何情况下我们都不能降低产品质量。4.■[古语]讲价;还价vi.1.■减价,跌价:Fruit has cheapened a bit lately.近来水果价格稍有下跌。
cheapencheapen[ˈtʃi:pən]vt.,vi.1.■(使)减价, 跌价2.■(使)降低威信[地位]3.■(使)变低级[粗俗]
继承用法cheapenern.
verb
- [with obj.]reduce the price of
使降价,使跌价
the depreciation of the dollar would cheapen US exports.
美元贬值会使美国出口商品跌价。
■degrade
贬低
the mass media simplify and cheapen the experience of art.
大众传媒简化并贬低艺术体验。
cheapen
■With at present price of contest of other commodity " pats what " differs is Guangzhou flowers trades what the center uses is " cheapen take " means sale.
与目前其它商品"竞价拍"不同的是广州花卉交易中心采用的是"跌价拍"方式拍卖。
■203. The price is changeable. Sometimes chain stores cheapen the goods to attract customers. They may be rather cheap.
价格多变,有时连锁店对货物降价以吸引顾客,可能很便宜。
■It's not in Jose's interest to do everything because it would cheapen the situation.
何塞的兴趣不在于接下所有广告,因为这会与他的身价不符。"
■You must not cheapen yourself .
你不可自贬身价。
■You just can't afford to let her hang-ups cheapen our relationship
你也不应该毫不容情地让她成为阻止我们相好的障碍。
■23)Your magickal tools are channels to that which is most precious and pure within you. Do not cheapen them by haggling their price when you acquire them.
你的魔法工具是那朝向在你心中贵重与纯真的途径。当需要这些道具时,不要将它们贬低而去做争论价格的事情。
■Don't overlook the obvious reasons to disagree with the war, but don't cheapen the moral aspects either.
别忽视显而易见的反战理由,但也别贬低开战有道德的方面。
■The reason was simple: Ma Liang was his greatest creation and he was afraid that a movie would cheapen his legacy.
原因很简单:马良是他创造出的最伟大的人物,他担心拍成电影会把这个故事的精神贬低。
■IT TAKES special ineptitude to cheapen a principle without getting anything much in return.
去降低一个原则还没有得到很大的回报是要有特别的愚笨。
■I shall not attempt to describe the concert because that will cheapen things far too much.
只能说,今晚以后,听陈绮贞将成为生活中的必须。
■I've always felt that telling it would cheapen both me and the story itself, make it smaller and more mundane, no more than a camp counselor's ghost story told before lights-out.
因为它是我的秘密,说出来就贬低了自己及故事本身,显得更渺小,更平淡,还不如野营辅导员在熄灯前给孩子们讲的鬼故事。
■In no case can we cheapen the quality of products.
在任何情况下我们都不能降低产品质量。
■Provide extremely in market chase after go up and kill cheapen when the value, particularly useful.
在市况极具追涨和杀跌价值时,非凡有用。
■There is such rich color in her cheeks and lips that make-up would be glaring and would cheapen her appearance
她的双颊和嘴唇颜色鲜丽,再用化妆品就会显得俗气刺眼。
■Approaching this casually could cheapen the very institution same-sex advocates appear to idolise.
如果随意地对待,那么同性婚姻的倡导者所追求的理想制度就不值钱了。
■Illustration by Claudio MunozIT TAKES special ineptitude to cheapen a principle without getting anything much in return.
愚笨无能不仅使原则失信与人,且使努力徒劳无功。
■It would cheapen his influence to quantify it;
感觉好像我在看着我自己,像一个小丑只为博人一笑。
■I don't want anything to cheapen what we've found.
我不希望任何事情使我们的发现变得粗俗。
■Our price has been calculated precisely, so no room for cheapen.
我们的价格是经过精密计算的,无让步(减价)余地。
■It cannot cheapen any more ,because its value was calculated by rule and line.
我们的价格是经过精密计算的,无让步(减价)余地。
■Thailand's central bank hopes to help the country's beleaguered exporters by allowing more investment overseas part of a strategy to cheapen the Thai baht.
泰国中央银行希望通过扩大海外投资达到泰铢贬值的目的,从而给处境困难的出口商提供帮助。
■We have to cheapen commodities at the moment.
目前我们只好使商品削价。
■Mr Zapatero refuses “to cheapen the firing” of the two-thirds of the workforce on permanent contracts, who must be paid 45 days for each year of service if they are laid off.
萨帕特罗首相拒绝降低对三分之二的终身合同制工人的补偿,原本规定这些工人被解雇后将会得到每个工龄45天的工资补偿。
■To cheapen a price; to beat down a price; to knock down a price
讨价,还价,让价,减价
■cheapen the reputation of...
贬低 ... 的声望
■But will such a park cheapen the image of Dickens -- one of Britain's best known authors?
这样的公园会不会有损狄更斯这位英国最著名的作家的形象呢?
■Some of the ideas that came out of the workshop are that migrant workers are needed by the employers not only to get a source of cheap labor but also to cheapen even the price of local labor.
部份与会人士提及移住劳工的引进,是因为雇主需要廉价劳动力;同时,藉由移住劳工的引进,本地劳工的工资也被迫调降。
■to cheapen the cost of raw materials
降低原材料的成本