look down upon: meaning & examples
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Meanings:
- To regard or treat someone or something as inferior or unworthy; to hold a contemptuous or superior attitude toward.
Examples
BetaSome people look down upon manual labor, but it’s honest work.
Certain individuals regard manual labor as inferior, though it is honest work.
It’s unfair to look down upon others for their mistakes.
Treating others as unworthy due to their errors is unjust.
She looked down upon anyone who didn’t meet her high standards.
She regarded people who did not meet her standards with contempt.
- To look at or observe from above, often used in a lofty, poetic, or devotional sense (for example, a deity or observer viewing events from a higher place).
Examples
BetaFrom the mountaintop, we looked down upon the village nestled in the valley.
We observed the village from above, located in the valley, from the mountain peak.
The painting depicts a goddess looking down upon her worshippers.
The artwork shows a goddess observing her devotees from a higher position.
He looked down upon the battlefield, contemplating the cost of war.
He gazed from above at the battlefield, reflecting on the consequences of the conflict.
The eagle looked down upon the forest as it soared high in the sky.
The eagle observed the forest below while flying at a great height.
Examples:
- EN: O God in heaven, look down upon this, thy son-ES: Dios que estás en el cielo, ira con piedad a este hijo tuyo.ES: Dios que estás en el cielo, mira con... piedad a este hijo tuyo.
- EN: O Father, Father, I beseech thee... - at this moment look down upon thy son... in this, his hour of need.ES: Oh, Padre, te suplico en este momento,... mira con piedad a este hijo... tuyo, en este momento de necesidad.
- EN: My dear friends... when I look down upon your kindly faces...ES: Mis queridos amigos... cuando veo vuestros rostros amables...
- EN: O Almighty God, look down upon and bless these two young people... as they go forth this day into the wilderness... to make for themselves a new home.ES: Dios todopoderoso, protege y bendice a esta pareja, Que hoy se adentra en tierra salvaje, Pra que encuentren un hogar.
- EN: Your eyes will be the first, other than mine, to look down upon my first novel.ES: Tus ojos serán los primeros en ver mi primera novela.
- EN: Almighty God, look down upon this miserable sinner... and grant that the sense of her weakness... may give strength to her faith and seriousness to her repentance.ES: Dios todopoderoso, mira a esta miserable pecadora y concédele que el sentido de su debilidad sea su fortaleza en la fe, y la seriedad en su arrepentimiento.
- EN: Now, I don't look down upon my position.ES: Yo no miro con desprecio.
- EN: You can look down upon my low rank, but not upon my sincerity.ES: Puede despreciar mi bajo rango. Pero no puede pasar por alto mi devoción.
- EN: 40 centuries will look down upon us and we will not disappointed them.ES: 40 siglos nos estaran contemplando y no los defraudaremos.
- EN: Forty centuries look down upon youES: Cuarenta siglos os contemplan.
- EN: O noble spirits in your lofty sphere, look down upon this small ensemble.ES: Oh, espíritus nobles en vuestro ámbito elevado, vislumbren este pequeño ensamble.
- EN: This woman, destined by divine providence to have her faith and Christian patience tried by lifelong misfortune - at least now she can look down upon you from above.ES: Esta mujer que el destino, la providencia divina, ha puesto a prueba su fe y su paciencia cristiana al menos tendrá el consuelo de poder veros desde arriba.
- EN: Almighty God, look down upon this thy house and we, thy humble servants.ES: Dios Todopoderoso, apiádate de ésta Tu casa y de Tus humildes siervos.
- EN: O Lord, look down upon this poor boy who lived among the heathen and cleanse him of the corruption of their foul, pagan ways and make him white again as the snow.ES: Señor, apiádate de este pobre chico que vivió entre los infieles. y líbrale de la corrupción de sus ritos paganos e insensatos. Y hazlo otra vez tan blanco como la nieve.
- EN: "and a wife that the farm hands and maids look down upon.ES: "y una esposa a quein los peones y sirvientas no miran.
- EN: O God in heaven, look down upon this, thy son-ES: Dios que estás en el cielo, ira con piedad a este hijo tuyo.ES: Dios que estás en el cielo, mira con... piedad a este hijo tuyo.
- EN: O Father, Father, I beseech thee... - at this moment look down upon thy son... in this, his hour of need.ES: Oh, Padre, te suplico en este momento,... mira con piedad a este hijo... tuyo, en este momento de necesidad.
- EN: My dear friends... when I look down upon your kindly faces...ES: Mis queridos amigos... cuando veo vuestros rostros amables...
- EN: O Almighty God, look down upon and bless these two young people... as they go forth this day into the wilderness... to make for themselves a new home.ES: Dios todopoderoso, protege y bendice a esta pareja, Que hoy se adentra en tierra salvaje, Pra que encuentren un hogar.
- EN: Your eyes will be the first, other than mine, to look down upon my first novel.ES: Tus ojos serán los primeros en ver mi primera novela.
- EN: Almighty God, look down upon this miserable sinner... and grant that the sense of her weakness... may give strength to her faith and seriousness to her repentance.ES: Dios todopoderoso, mira a esta miserable pecadora y concédele que el sentido de su debilidad sea su fortaleza en la fe, y la seriedad en su arrepentimiento.
- EN: "and a wife that the farm hands and maids look down upon.ES: "y una esposa a quein los peones y sirvientas no miran.
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