女神殿

condescend



Y
不擺架子;屈尊[+to-v]
帶著優越感表示親切[(+to)];以恩賜態度對待[+to-v]

D

–verb (used without object) 
1. to behave as if one is conscious of descending from a superior position, rank, or dignity. 
2. to stoop or deign (屈尊俯就) to do something: 

He would not condescend to misrepresent the facts.  

3.
to put aside one's dignity or superiority voluntarily and 
assume equality 
with one regarded as inferior: 

He condescended to [their intellectual level] in order to be understood.  

4. Obsolete. 
a. to yield. 
b. to assent.  
 

　
As a man, I would hate to have my taste[s] condescended [to] by the opposite of Chick Lit, which, according to Gloria Steinem, is Prick Lit. I read Jane Austen for a simple reason, not gender-related: I cannot put her down and often return to her in times of trouble.


genuflect 
prostrate 
He prostrated himself before rank and wealth.

progeny
scion
descend
下來,下降,為...的後裔

feign 
play possum