look down on

俯视； 看不起； 蔑视

He seldom spoke, which caused the others to look down on him.(他很少说话，这使得别人很轻视他。)

I look down on him.(我瞧不起他。)

Don't look down on it.(但是不要小看它。)

I look down on man who vents his anger on his family after having a bad day at work.(我瞧不起那些工作不顺心就拿家里人出气的男人。)

If you look down on people and treat them badly, they'll retaliate and appear just as annoying and hostile as you expected.(如果你瞧不起别人，待他们不好，他们就会回敬你，就会像你预料的那样显得令人讨厌，充满敌意。)

See that you do not look down on one of these little ones.(你们要小心，不可轻看这小子里的一个。)

I don't think people will look down on you because you are serving the customers.(我认为人家不会因为你服务他们而看不起你的。)

They Shared all that they had, they did not look down on anyone.(他们分享着自己拥有的一切，他们从不看低任何人。)

The great man's verdict: "Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you."(这位伟人的结论是：“狗敬仰你，而猫轻视你。”)

Away from them, on countless side streets, pedestrians look down on rooftops on either side.(而在数不清的小街上，行人们俯视着道路两旁的屋顶。)

verb

1. regard with contempt

e.g. the new neighbor looks down on us because our house is very modest

1. 蔑视；轻视；小看
To look down on someone means to consider that person to be inferior or unimportant, usually when this is not true.

e.g. I wasn't successful, so they looked down on me.
我一无所成，所以他们瞧不起我。