deigned

英 [deɪnd]

美 [deɪnd]

v. 屈尊，俯就，降低身份(做某事)
deign的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

VERB 屈尊;俯就;降低身份
If you say that someonedeignedto do something, you are expressing your disapproval of the fact that they did it unwillingly, because they thought they were too important to do it.
1. At last, Harper deigned to speak...
  哈珀终于赏脸开了口。
2. Weatherby didn't deign to reply.
  韦瑟比不屑回答。

双语例句

He was reminded of van gogh's the starry night, which he had never deigned to give a thought but now understood.
他想起了梵高的《星夜》，以前他一直对那种画不屑一顾：而现在他懂了。
She spoke out about all of it, though the ANC seldom deigned to notice or reply.
她大胆地说出了这些情况，然而非洲人国民大会很少赏脸给予注意和回复。
: The seismic monitoring system is set up to preserve the 10MW High Temperature Reactor running normally or can be safely shut-down under the seismic status. The system is deigned for unattended station.
为了保障地震发生时10MW高温气冷实验堆（HTR-10）的正常运行和安全停堆，设置了地震监测系统。
Ken's answers were always in single syllables if he even deigned to say anything at all.
如果他甚至蒙全然说任何事，肯恩的答案总是在单一音节中。
Neither deigned to look up from their game until Haldon drew up a chair between them and said," My dwarf plays better cyvasse than both of you combined. "
两人没人肯从游戏中抬头看一眼知道哈尔顿拉开他们之间的那张椅子说，“我的侏儒比你们两个加起来都玩儿的好。”
Coincidentally, or not, Beijing has deigned to allow Taiwan observer status at the World Health Organisation's annual assembly, dropping its customary objection to the attendance of an island state it considers a mere province of China.
巧合的是（或者并非巧合），北京已惠允台湾以观察员的身份出席世界卫生组织（WHO）年度大会，放弃了反对它认为只是自己一个省份的台湾参加该大会的一贯姿态。
She deigned no further reply.
她不再屈尊作答了。
The duchess deigned to shake my hands.
公爵夫人屈尊和我握了手。
And this temperature control system is well adaptive to the alteration of the unit's load and meets the deigned requirements.
同时，该主汽温控制方案具有良好的负荷适应性，满足系统设计要求。
For the reasons mentioned above, this study adopted "the critical pairs in the universities task" and "the critical pairs in the cities task" and respectively deigned tow researches.
基于此，本研究采用了“高校配对比较”任务和“城市配对比较任务”分别设计了两个实验研究。