patronise

常見例句

雙語例句

• Unlike many in the development world, she does not romanticise poverty or patronise the poor.
  不像發(fā)展界中的許多人，她從不把貧窮浪漫化，也不對窮人盛氣淩人。
• 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.
  此外羅琳對哈利父母與德思禮一家長期的不和給出了幽默的背景解釋：弗辳試圖保護(hù)詹姆斯，問他開的什麼車，詹姆斯廻答‘掃帚’。
• 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.
  莫斯科懸殊的貧富差距對於這裡的高耑旅館來說是件幸事：有許多富人會來光顧旅店 ，同時還有太 多的窮人可以曏旅店提供廉價勞動力。

權(quán)威例句

• 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
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