patronise
音标发音
- 英式音标 ['peɪtrənaɪz]
- 美式音标 ['pætrənaɪz]
- 国际音标 ['peitrənaiz]
基本解释
- vt.资助;赞助;惠顾;屈尊
- =patronize(美).
英汉例句
- Unlike many in the development world, she does not romanticise poverty or patronise the poor.
不像发展界中的许多人,她从不把贫穷浪漫化,也不对穷人盛气凌人。 - She also gives humorous background to the long-running animosity between Harry's parents and the Dursleys – "Vernon tried to patronise James, asking what car he drove.
此外罗琳对哈利父母与德思礼一家长期的不和给出了幽默的背景解释:弗农试图保护詹姆斯,问他开的什么车,詹姆斯回答‘扫帚’。 - Moscow's massive inequality is a blessing for its high-end hostelries: there are plenty of rich Russians to patronise them and more than enough poor ones to make labour cheap.
莫斯科悬殊的贫富差距对于这里的高端旅馆来说是件幸事:有许多富人会来光顾旅店 ,同时还有太 多的穷人可以向旅店提供廉价劳动力。 - They patronise Ukrainians as the English once did the Irish, as bumpkins and dolts who speak the language funny.
ECONOMIST: Its presidential election, too, could change the world - He is still deciding whether Lauder will patronise Sephora's Fifth Avenue store, possibly worried about hurting business at nearby Saks.
ECONOMIST: Selling make-up - For example, a quarter of the injectors surveyed in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi also patronise prostitutes, and few of them use condoms.
ECONOMIST: The struggle against AIDS in Asia is far from over
双语例句
权威例句
词组短语
- Welcome patronise 欢迎光顾
- to patronise 光顾
- Not patronise food 不要光顾着吃啊
- Don T Patronise Me 不要光顾我