meanness

英

美

n.  下贱卑劣卑鄙；粗野；劣等无价值；无聊；吝啬小气

复数：meannesses　

BNC.21894 / COCA.19328

英英释义

noun

• extreme stinginess
  Synonym:minginessniggardlinessniggardnessparsimonyparsimoniousnesstightnesstightfistednesscloseness
• the quality of being deliberately mean
  Synonym:beastliness

双语例句

• This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.
  这个在现实生活和精神生活中同样艰难的规则，诠释着整个伟大和渺小的区别。
• The meanness of anonymity gave a shuddering obscenity to the moment.
  这种匿名的卑鄙行为使他一时觉得下流得让人吃不消。
• She had seen enough of her pride, her meanness.
  她看够了费拉尔斯太太的骄傲、平庸。
• It explains most happiness and unhappiness, most success and failure, most greatness and meanness in life.
  它解释了人们生活中的大部分幸福和不幸，大部分成功和失败，以及大部分高尚和卑劣。
• For at best their victory never dawns on the shining new world they had dreamed of, cleansed of all human meanness.
  因为胜利的曙光无论如何也不会照耀在他们梦想中的那个摆脱了人类一切卑劣的灿烂的新世界上。
• I tried to find the root cause of this meanness in me.
  我力图找出我这种卑鄙性格的根本原因。
• In his greasy morass of meanness and selfishness.
  他卑鄙自私的泥泞沼泽。
• His stupidity is rivalled only by his meanness.
  只有他的吝啬可以与他的愚蠢相配。
• Well, they were honest eyes, he concluded, and in them was neither smallness nor meanness.
  好了，他的结论是自己这对眼睛是诚恳的，其中没有小气和卑劣。
• The sense of meanness died in jon.
  乔恩的自咎感消失了。