feel cheap表示“感到害羞或自卑”;feel small意为“感到自卑、羞惭或自尊心受到伤害”;look small则表示“使……显得不重要/掉价”;think small是“自以为不行;自觉渺小”。
- I would feel cheap if I wore my dresses as short as that!
我如果穿那样短的衣服,我会感到害羞的。 - I feel cheap not being able to return their invitation.
不能回请他们,我感到自卑。 - I felt small when I learned how badly I had misjudged him.
当我知道我错怪了他时,我感到自惭形秽。 - The teacher made the boy feel small by making him stand in front of the class.
这位老师通过叫他站在全班前面使这个男孩感到羞惭。 - Changing his mind in public made the politician look very small .
当众变卦使这位政客显得非常掉价。 - In the confused era following Vietnam and Watergate, a time of thinking small , we had tried to build humanity's most complicated machine on the cheap.
在越南战争和“水门事件”之后那个动荡不安、自我轻蔑的时代,我们试图廉价地建造人类最为精密复杂的机器。