每日单词: patronize
patronize
英 ['pætrənaɪz] 美 ['peɪtrənaɪz]
vt.以高人一等的态度对待；经常光顾；资助
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◉Usage Examples
(1) He resented the way she patronized him.
(2) Some television programmes tend to patronize children.
(3) The restaurant is patronized by politicians and journalists.
(4) Only the well-to-do could afford to patronize them.
(1) 她待他那种屈尊纡贵的样子，他十分愤恨。
(2) 有些电视节目往往以大人的观点对待儿童。
(3) 这家饭馆常有政治家和记者光顾。
(4) 只有富人才能资助他们。
◉Usage notes
If you patronize a business, you shop there regularly. But if someone patronizes you, it's not so pleasant — they talk to you as if you were inferior or not very intelligent.
Patronize comes from Latin patronus "protector, master," related to pater "father." So if you patronize a person, you talk down to them like a father might do to his child or a master to his apprentice. If you want to take an advanced class and your advisor warns you of all the hard work, you can tell him to stop patronizing you — you know a hard class involves hard work. This sounds much better than saying, "I'm not stupid!"
◉Collins
in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 patronise
1. [VERB 动词]对…摆出屈尊俯就的样子 If someone patronizes you, they speak or behave towards you in a way which seems friendly, but which shows that they think they are superior to you in some way. [V n] [V-ed] [disapproval]
Don't you patronize me!...
别在我面前摆出一副屈尊俯就的样子！
Cornelia often felt patronised by her tutors.
科妮莉亚常常觉得她的老师们对她摆出屈尊俯就的样子。
2. [VERB 动词]资助；赞助 Someone who patronizes artists, writers, or musicians supports them and gives them money. [V n] [FORMAL 正式]
The Japanese Imperial family patronises the Japanese Art Association.
日本皇室资助日本艺术协会。
3. [VERB 动词]光顾；惠顾 If someone patronizes a place such as a pub, bar, or hotel, they are one of its customers. [V n] [FORMAL 正式]
The ladies of Berne liked to patronize the Palace for tea and little cakes.
伯尔尼的女士们喜欢去联邦宫殿用茶点。
