slights

英 [slaɪts]

美 [slaɪts]

n.  侮慢; 冷落; 轻视
v.  侮慢; 冷落; 轻视
slight的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 轻微的;少量的;小的
  Something that isslightis very small in degree or quantity.
  1. Doctors say he has made a slight improvement...
     医生说他的病情稍有好转。
  2. We have a slight problem...
     我们有一个小小的问题。
  3. A slight smile flickered over his face...
     他的脸上闪过一丝微笑。
  4. He's not the slightest bit worried.
     他一点儿也不担心。
• ADJ-GRADED (人)瘦弱的，瘦小的
  Aslightperson has a fairly thin and delicate looking body.
  1. She is smaller and slighter than Christie.
     她比克里斯蒂瘦小。
  2. ...a slight, bespectacled figure.
     身材瘦小、戴着眼镜的人
• VERB 不理睬;藐视;轻蔑;冷落
  If youare slighted, someone does or says something that insults you by treating you as if your views or feelings are not important.
  1. They felt slighted by not being adequately consulted.
     没有充分征求他们的意见，这让他们感到被冷落了。
  2. Slightis also a noun.
     
  3. It isn't a slight on my husband that I enjoy my evening class.
     我喜欢上夜课并非是对丈夫的冷落。
• PHRASE (用于加强陈述的否定语气)一点也(不)
  You usein the slightestto emphasize a negative statement.
  1. That doesn't interest me in the slightest...
     那一点也不能引起我的兴趣。
  2. 'Do you worry about ageing?' — 'Not in the slightest.'
     “你担心变老吗？”——“一点也不。”

双语例句

• Personal strength: A tenacious memory, especially for real or imagined slights.
  个人优点：有着超乎常人的记忆力，尤其对于事实上的和想象的侮辱。
• In recent weeks, Mrs. Obama has talked of insults and slights directed at her husband and caricatures that have pained her.
  最近几周，米歇尔谈及那些对她丈夫发出的侮辱与蔑视，以及令她痛苦不堪的漫画。
• Become Indifferent to Slights because time and energy are too valuable to waste on petty matters.
  忽视细节因为时间和精力太宝贵，不能浪费在琐碎的事情上。
• He laughed; Hareton darkened: I perceived he was very sensitive to suspected slights, and had obviously a dim notion of his inferiority.
  我想他对猜疑到的轻蔑是很敏感的，而且显然对他的卑微有一个模糊的概念。
• If you're the one who wants the apology, stick to the matter at hand. Don't bring up past slights.
  如果你是想要别人道歉的那个人，就事论事，不要提起过去的不快。
• Results: Whether or not take early treatment has relation with the recovery of slights, amount of bleeding, eyeball damage degree and other complications.
  结果：钝挫伤性前房出血患者视力恢复、出血量、眼球损伤程度及有无影响视力的并发症等与是否早期治疗有关。
• A nothing vexed him; and suspected slights of his authority nearly threw him into fits.
  无关紧要的事也让他感到烦心，如若稍有置疑他的权威，他就会发作一气。
• Some believe that the Christmas card list, where we keep track of old favours and slights, is a sort of passive-aggressive vendetta.
  有人认为，记录着我们之前得到过的帮助和受过的怠慢的圣诞卡寄送名单，是一种消极的复仇。
• Esther, in turn, became less sensitive to their slights.
  艾斯达也不太在意他们对她的轻视。
• While Nile Gardiner, one Romney adviser, has made a fetish of compiling lists of alleged slights to Britain by the Obama administration, most of these have failed to register with the British themselves.
  罗姆尼的一名顾问奈尔加德纳（nilegardiner）夸张地列出了一份清单，宣称上面都是表明奥巴马政府轻慢英国的一些事实，其中大多数连英国人自己都没有注意到。