Abasement
[ə'beɪsmənt]
解释:
(noun.) a low or downcast state; 'each confession brought her into an attitude of abasement'- H.L.Menchken.
凯茜录入--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation.
詹尼弗编辑
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Depression, detrusion, reduction, lowering, fall, deterioration, degradation, debasement, degeneracy, vitiation, perversion, depravation.[2]. Abjectness, abjection, vileness, baseness, contemptibleness, despicableness.[3]. Humiliation, condescension, submission, submissiveness, resignation, humility, meekness, humbleness, lowliness, self-abasement.
吉尔伯特校对
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Degradation, depression, disgrace, humiliation, abjection, dishonor, shame
ANT:Promotion, elevation, honor, exaltation, dignity, aggrandizement
手打:托马斯
娱乐性解释：
n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth or power. Peculiarly appropriate in an employee when addressing an employer.
格伦录入
例句:
- But they were generally accompanied by a sense of compunction and self-abasement of which Newland Archer felt no trace. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- But she was silent, pleased with the disparity, with her self-abasement. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- It seems I had no dévouement, no récueillement in my character; no spirit of grace, faith, sacrificeor self-abasement. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- If anything was needed to put the last touch to her self-abasement it was the sense of the way her old life was opening its ruts again to receive her. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- She flamed with anger and abasement, and the sickening need of having to conciliate where she longed to humble. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Will reseated himself, feeling some pity which was half contempt for this voluntary self-abasement of an elderly man. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
校对:琳达