condescend
/ˌkɒndɪˈsend/verb
no obj.
1- show that one feels superior; patronize显示优越感; 以恩赐（或屈尊）的态度相待：
take care not to condescend to your reader.
注意不要以高人一等的姿态对待你的读者。
1.1
- with infinitive do something in such a way as to emphasize that one clearly regards it as below one's dignity or level of importance俯就; 屈尊：
we'll be waiting for twenty minutes before she condescends to appear.
在她屈尊露面之前, 我们得等上20分钟。
派生词
condescension
noun词源
Middle English （in the sense 'give way， defer'）： from Old French condescendre, from ecclesiastical Latin condescendere, from con- 'together'+descendere 'descend'.