查询词典 patronising

We need to guard against the sympathetic but patronising forms of ageism, treating older people as doddery but dear.

他强调：有时我们会把老年人看做受人尊敬但却步履蹒跚的长者，对他们采取一种表面上怜悯但实际上居高临下的态度，我们应当极力避免这种形式的年龄歧视。

Generally speaking, if you're talking about having no children at all, you're still regarded as barmy or selfish. Or you get the patronising,'Oh, you know, you'll change your mind.'

总的来说，如果你敢谈论根本不要孩子，就会被认为是癫狂或者自私，还会受到蔑视：'要知道，你肯定会改变主意的'。

China's approach to our needs is simply better adapted than the slow and sometimes patronising post-colonial approach of European investors, donor organisations and non-governmental organisations, argues Abdoulaye Wade, president of Senegal in a guest column for this report.

塞内加尔总统阿卜杜拉耶·瓦德在本系列报告的特邀专栏中表示："与欧洲投资者、捐助机构和非政府组织缓慢、有时带有施恩性质的后殖民主义方式相比，中国满足我们需求的方式更适合。"

Michelle Dewberry, a former winner of The Apprentice, said the motion was patronising.

真人秀连续剧《学徒》的往届冠军米歇尔·杜伯里说这个建议感觉是在给女性什么恩赐。

Intergroup contact, positive relations across the generations, seems to be an important mechanism for combating stereotypes," he said."We need to guard against the sympathetic but patronising forms of ageism, treating older people as doddery but dear.

他强调：有时我们会把老年人看做受人尊敬但却步履蹒跚的长者，对他们采取一种表面上怜悯但实际上居高临下的态度，我们应当极力避免这种形式的年龄歧视。

From my point of view he was intransigent, patronising and utterly insufferable.

起因是件很小的事-吵架这种事通常都是如此。

Further, Will Heaven of the Daily Telegraph said that the plot line involving people of color who wear "tribal" jewelry while sporting dreadlocked hair, being saved by a noble white man gave the film a "racist subtext" that he found "nauseatingly patronising."

每日电报》的威尔·海文进一步说，情节中涉及的穿戴民族首饰、炫耀长头发的有色种族被高贵的白种人所救是"种族主义的潜台词"，并且这个让他觉得恶心。

Those patronising and be at somebody's beck and call all need some dispensable top-drawer decoration.

高高在上的，仰人鼻息的，都需要那些可有可无的最高级的修饰。

Said by a white Texan dynast in Ghana, an African country once ravaged by the slave trade, that unexceptionable insight might sound a shade patronising. Said by a son of Africa whose election to the world's most powerful post thrilled the continent, it was taken at its respectable face value.

我的译文是：发展需要良政，一位德州的白人总统在访问加纳——这个曾经受到贩奴贸易践踏的国家时说到，布什无懈可击的观点看起来是高人一等的，"非洲的儿子"奥巴马他当选世界上最有权势的职位震撼了整个非洲大陆，他说这话是却带着值得尊重的表面价值。

Said by a white Texan dynast in Ghana, an African country once ravaged by the slave trade, that unexceptionable insight might sound a shade patronising.

在加纳这个曾经遭受奴隶贸易蹂躏的非洲国家，如果发表这一无可指摘的警言的是那位来自德州的白人大佬，听者可能会把它当作一句态度有些高傲的说教。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。