1. But it did not need the patronising charity of white people. 但是,这并不需要白人傲慢的仁慈。
2. Why should I give my patronising colleague the benefit of the doubt when he was so clearly in the wrong? 为什么我应该在我高傲的同事显然有错时,却对他“无罪推定”?
3. Whether he comes to you in anger or merely to give you a patronising pat on the back, you are done for, cracked in either case. 他是生气地冲你走过来还是仅仅在你的后背屈尊俯就地拍一拍,不管在哪种情况下,你都完蛋了。
4. The West is still stuck in a colonial mindset, and approaches Africa in a patronising way that hasn't changed for many, many years. 而西方人仍然困在殖民时期的精神状态里,用一种多年未变的以恩人自居的方式接近非洲。