patronize
patronize 英 [ˈpætrənaɪz] 美 [ˈpeɪtrənaɪz]
vt. 以高人一等的态度对待；经常光顾，惠顾；资助；保护
进行时:patronizing 过去式:patronized 过去分词:patronized 第三人称单数:patronizes
- If you patronize a business, you shop there regularly. But if someone patronizes you, it's not so pleasant — they talk to you as if you were inferior or not very intelligent.
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- vt. 以高人一等的态度对待；经常光顾，惠顾；资助；保护
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1. I also buy books online, but sparingly, because I prefer to patronize my town's brick-and-mortar retailers.
我也在线上购书，但多只是为了省钱，我还是更乐意惠顾镇上传统的书商。
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2. Picking up the cost of overhead, and gambling that shoppers would patronize a store with only one company's products, was considered risky.
提高管理费用，并且打赌消费者在一家店只惠顾一家公司的产品，这是冒风险的做法。
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3. There was a huge library near the riverfront,but I knew that Negroes were not allowed to patronize its shelves any more than they were the parks and playgrounds of the city.
河畔有一个大图书馆，但是我知道，它是不允许黑人光顾的，就像这个城里的公园和运动场所不让黑人光顾一样。
- patronize (v.) 1580s, "to act as a patron towards," from patron + -ize, or from Old French patroniser. Meaning "treat in a condescending way" is first attested 1797; sense of "give regular business to" is from 1801. Related: Patronized; patronizing.
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