Condescend

(verb.) do something that one considers to be below one's dignity.

(verb.) behave in a patronizing and condescending manner.

(verb.) debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way; 'I won't stoop to reading other people's mail'.

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• What a pity, Master Copperfield, that you didn't condescend to return my confidence! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• But I shall be happy, sir, if you will condescend. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• I was resolute in repulsing him; for I had determined when I went there, that no one should pity me or condescend to me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• If your Majesty would condescend to state your case, he remarked, I should be better able to advise you. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• I cannot therefore condescend to speak of them as the Boffins. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I wonder you condescend to come back to such poor society as this, I am sure I do! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• And, being this, as well as young and beautiful, why condescend to resent our sins against you? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The duke seeing that mine was real agitation and not affectation, condescended to unbend a little. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Each man asked his neighbour for news; and even great English lords and ladies condescended to speak to persons whom they did not know. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Several before your ladyship condescended to favour me with an answer. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Beaumanoir saw his mortal apprehension, and condescended to give him some assurance. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The clerk, being a married man, condescended to take an interest in the couple, who appeared to be shopping for their family. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Twice has she condescended to give me her opinion (unasked too! 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• On the plain household bread his eye did not dwell; but he surveyed with favour some currant tea-cakes, and condescended to make choice of one. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I am surprised,' said Mr Sampson feebly, 'that Miss Bella condescends to cook. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• But she is perfectly amiable, and often condescends to drive by my humble abode in her little phaeton and ponies. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• She condescends to say I would have made him a good wife; and vows that she will be a mother to your little Rebecca. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Ay, my man,' said the gentleman in the white waistcoat, with a condescending smile. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• There is no more agreeable object in life than to see Mayfair folks condescending. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• And he is so condescending to the son he so egregiously deludes that you might suppose him the most virtuous of parents. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Humble, humble--condescending even to poor Dick, who is simple and knows nothing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• MY DEAR MISS WILSON,--Will you be so condescending as to allow me to pass this evening alone with you after Lord Lansdowne's party? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Archer's laugh lingered on his lips in a slightly condescending smile. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• It is not that I have seen my good Amy attentive, and--ha--condescending to my old pensioner--it is not _that_ that hurts me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.

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