Abase
[ə'beɪs] or [ə'bes]
解释:
(a.) To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye.
(a.) To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade.
整理:罗拉
同义词及近义词:
v. a. [1]. Depress, lower, reduce, drop, sink, stoop, cast down, let down, let fall.[2]. Degrade, humble, disgrace, dishonor, humiliate, debase, bring low, take down.
阿曼德录入
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Degrade, disgrace, bring_low, reduce, humble, demean, stoop, humiliate,depress, lower, sink, dishonor
ANT:Promote, exalt, honor, raise, elevate, dignify, aggrandize
录入:玛丽埃塔
例句:
- You abase them more than is needful, in the faint hope that others may say a word in their behalf--which won't happen. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- I wouldn't abase myself by descending to hold no conversation with him,' replied the Dodger. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- As they abased themselves before him, Mr. Micawber took a seat, and waved his hand in his most courtly manner. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Not humbled before God, as having failed in trust towards Him; not degraded and abased in Mr. Thornton's sight. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- If it were only for her sake, I wish he would come, and then at least I should know how much I was abased in his eyes. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- Only once she cried aloud, at the stinging thought of the faithlessness which gave birth to that abasing falsehood. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- It was humbly done, but picturesquely, and was not abasing to the doer. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- It is he that abases the proud and favours the humble. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
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