0 If you condescend to do something, you agree to do something that you do not consider to be good enough for your social position. -- 屈尊做…，俯就做…，降格做…
Such a development would also further a wider appreciation for local forms of knowledge, an intellectual heritage hitherto largely relegated to the condescending guardianship of nationalistic folklore studies.
The temperance notion of drink and intoxication was deeply inflected by class, and the drinker urged to reform was inevitably marked as a person to be condescended to.
That the newcomers needed to be assisted went hand in hand with the condescending belief that they had to be converted as well.
In such cases the object of condescension is thought to be unworthy; consequently, to condescend is to be compromised.
At the same time, historians of political thought have not condescended to deal with the political facts.
Informing us of such an end need not be condescending.
As they condescended (or abdicated their distinction), visitors were required to act like the people they were trying to help.
Readers can feel condescended to or badgered.
