Patronize

(verb.) be a regular customer or client of; 'We patronize this store'; 'Our sponsor kept our art studio going for as long as he could'.

(verb.) treat condescendingly.

(verb.) do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of.

编辑:耶鲁

• It was part--and an excellent part--of the pose of Grand Monarchy to patronize literature and the sciences. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• She drew near them now, rather to find protection in their company than to patronize them with her presence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I will not allow you to utter in my presence the absurd suspicion that any strangers--I care not what their names--can patronize my child. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Say that he wants to patronize me, pursued Mr. Skimpole. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Mrs. Sedley has ceased to visit her landlady in the lower regions now, and indeed is in a position to patronize Mrs. Clapp no longer. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• In having them filled patronize only honest and capable druggists. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• I can't go anywhere without being Patronized. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• She patronized Lady Gaunt and her astonished and mortified sister-in-law--she ecrased all rival charmers. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• To be patronized by THEM! 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I hate to be patronized, and the Chesters think it's a great favor to allow us to help with their highly connected fair. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Too passionate an absorption in public affairs is felt to be a somewhat shallow performance, and the reformer is patronized as a well-meaning but rather dull fellow. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• But people sometimes like to be patronized; don't they, sir? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The little fellow patronized the feeble and disappointed old man. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• That abject hypocrite, Pumblechook, nodded again, and said, with a patronizing laugh, It's more than that, Mum. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• He was possessed with a mania for patronizing Yankee ingenuity, and seeing his friends fitly furnished forth. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Take time, Sophronia,' observed her watchful husband, in a patronizing manner. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• That lady persisted in patronizing her and determined most graciously to form her. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• In a line regiment, Clink said with a patronizing air. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• No, no, no,' said Mr Boffin; 'no patronizing! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• What the deuce right has he to give himself his patronizing airs, and make fools of us at Vauxhall? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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