1. He who does not keep his heart within him, and who does not have God before his eyes is easily moved by a word of disparagement. 一个人，不收敛心神，又不想自己是在天主面前，这样的人自然容易被毁谤动摇。
2. Along with this disparagement of a compliment is the American tendency to laugh at one's own mistakes and admit one's weaknesses. 美国人不仅仅会轻视恭维，还往往会自嘲自己的错误和承认他人的弱点。
3. Whatever might be said in disparagement of their work , it had to be admitted by their contemporaries that Irving and Cooper were eminent men of Letters. 欧文和库珀的作品即或受过奚落，同时代的人不得不承认他们是文人中的佼佼者。
英英解释
n.
1. a communication that belittles somebody or something
2. the act of speaking contemptuously of
