look down on

küçümsemek, hor görmek

Birini veya bir şeyi kendinden daha değersiz ya da aşağı görmek.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: To think someone or something is less good or less important than you.

• Do not look down on others.
• She looked down on his simple clothes.
• Why do some people look down on manual work?

Nasıl kullanılır: look down on someone/something (They look down on people with less money.)

Eş anlamlılar: despise, scorn

Zıt anlamlılar: respect, admire

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: look down on someone, look down on something

yukarıdan bakmak

Birini veya bir şeyi daha yüksek bir yerden görmek.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: To see someone or something from a higher place.

• We look down on the garden.
• She looked down on the street from her balcony.
• Can you look down on the valley from here?

Nasıl kullanılır: look down on something from somewhere (We looked down on the town from the hill.)

Eş anlamlılar: view from above

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: look down on something, look down on someone

cennetten izlemek

Ölmüş bir kişinin dünyadaki insanları veya olayları cennetten izlediğini anlatmak.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: For someone who has died, to watch people or events on earth from heaven.

• Grandma is looking down on us.
• He believed his father looked down on him from heaven.
• Would she smile if she could look down on us now?

Nasıl kullanılır: look down on someone from heaven (We believe Grandpa looks down on us from heaven.)

Eş anlamlılar: watch over

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: look down on someone, look down on us