英语单词短语词组“lower your sights”的中文翻译、释义及用法解析-英汉词典

loweryoursights

idiom

toacceptthat you will only beableto get something less than youhopedfor:

降低要求，退而求其次

He hadhopedtobecomeadoctor, but he had tolowerhissightsafter hisdisappointingexamresults.他原希望成为一名医生，但令人失望的考试成绩迫使他降低目标。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Humiliating and degrading

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单词	lower your sights
释义	loweryoursights idiom toacceptthat you will only beableto get something less than youhopedfor: 降低要求，退而求其次 He hadhopedtobecomeadoctor, but he had tolowerhissightsafter hisdisappointingexamresults.他原希望成为一名医生，但令人失望的考试成绩迫使他降低目标。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Humiliating and degrading abase abasement be under a cloudidiom bring/takesomeonedown a peg (or two)idiom bruisesomeone'segoidiom debase deflate disgraced dishonour dishonourable doghouse exhibition ignominious ignominiously ignominy in the doghouseidiom indignity stoop stoop tosomething undignified See more results » (Definition oflower your sightsfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press) #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/lower-sights##
随便看	in full swing in fun／for fun in general in good order in good time in half in high spirits in honour of in keeping with in large quantities in line with in memory of in name in need in no mood in no sense in no time in no way in no wise in number in obedience to in one's own way in opposition to in order in order that／to