Vernon tried to patronise James, asking what car he drove. James described his racing broom.

弗农瞧不起詹姆斯，假惺惺地问他开什么车，詹姆斯就描述了一番他的飞天扫帚。

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Academic historians tend to patronise authors like Mr Behrman who write easily and popularise history with their fluid narratives of dramatic events.

学术派史学家总是以高人一等的姿态来评价贝尔曼这本以流畅的文笔娓娓道出戏剧般的通俗历史。

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She also gives humorous background to the long-running animosity between Harry's parents and the Dursleys – "Vernon tried to patronise James, asking what car he drove.

此外罗琳对哈利父母与德思礼一家长期的不和给出了幽默的背景解释：弗农试图保护詹姆斯，问他开的什么车，詹姆斯回答‘扫帚’。

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Not to patronise them by assuming they're not capable of it.

BBC: NEWS | UK | Politics | Text of Michael Howard's speech

Everybody liked him, though it was a temptation for those who knew him to patronise him, to treat him like a favourite child or pet, such was the inequality of his and their knowledge about his life.

ECONOMIST: H.M.

It is a vivid and, at times, moving story of one woman's lonely and dogged fight against the painfully limited expectations of her own gender embodied by her own mother, the unquestioning prejudice of most men of her age and the suffocating instinct to patronise of those who have inherited their positions rather than earned them.

BBC: The Iron Lady