Abject
['æbdʒekt] or ['æbdʒɛkt]
解释:
(adj.) showing humiliation or submissiveness; 'an abject apology' .
(adj.) of the most contemptible kind; 'abject cowardice'; 'a low stunt to pull'; 'a low-down sneak'; 'his miserable treatment of his family'; 'You miserable skunk!'; 'a scummy rabble'; 'a scurvy trick' .
(adj.) most unfortunate or miserable; 'the most abject slaves joined in the revolt'; 'abject poverty' .
(adj.) showing utter resignation or hopelessness; 'abject surrender' .
校对:蒂米--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Cast down; low-lying.
(a.) Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts.
(a.) To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.
(n.) A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway.
整理:劳拉
同义词及近义词:
a. Base, vile, mean, low, despicable, contemptible, beggarly, paltry, dirty, squalid, grovelling, pitiful, ignoble, degraded, worthless, poor, servile, slavish, menial, sneaking, sordid, shabby, scurvy, miserable, wretched, low-minded, base-minded, earth-born, earth-bred.
埃德娜校对
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Degraded, outcast, miserable, vile, pitiable, worthless, despicable, groveling,fawning, squalid, base-minded, slavish, beggarly, servile, cringing, low,wretched, sordid
ANT:Honorable, dignified, eminent, exalted, esteemed, worthy, venerable, noble,princely, illustrious, independent, self-assertive, self-reliant, vain,arrogant, insolent, haughty
卡洛琳手打
解释:
adj. cast away: mean: worthless: cowering: base.—n. an outcast.—ns. Abjec′tion Ab′jectness a mean or low state: baseness: degradation.—adv. Ab′jectly.
v.t. (obs.) to throw or cast down or away.
编辑:帕特里克
娱乐性解释:
To dream that you are abject, denotes that you will be the recipient of gloomy tidings, which will cause a relaxation in your strenuous efforts to climb the heights of prosperity. To see others abject, is a sign of bickerings and false dealings among your friends.
埃尔伯特编辑
例句:
- This straightforward bullying was met by abject submission. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- They trailed off to the dealer, the handsome but abject young fellow hanging a little aside. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Then, what submission, what cringing and fawning, what servility, what abject humiliation! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- The poor side of a debtor's prison is, as its name imports, that in which the most miserable and abject class of debtors are confined. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- His movements were graceful, yet curiously abject, slinking. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- That abject hypocrite, Pumblechook, nodded again, and said, with a patronizing laugh, It's more than that, Mum. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- Miserable little propitiators of a remorseless Idol, how abject we were to him! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- And if anything could have made him look more abject or more dismally ridiculous than before, it would have been his so displaying himself. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Well, well, then--Bill Sikes,' said the Jew, with abject humility. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- They were by no means abject slaves; in later Babylon their lives and property were protected by elaborate laws. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- But Mrs. Yeobright had well considered all that, and she only thought how best to make her visit appear to Eustacia not abject but wise. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- They are strong and hardy, but of a cowardly spirit, and, by consequence, insolent, abject, and cruel. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- It makes boys manly and courageous; and the very vices of an abject race tend to strengthen in them the opposite virtues. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- They are the sorriest beasts that breathe--the most abject--the most pitiful. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- A characteristic, but not exactly complimentary, congratulation, returned Laurie, still in an abject attitude, but beaming with satisfaction. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Those abject wretches--' 'Don't call names, Rokesmith,' said Mr Boffin. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- I could say nothing in reply; for who could offer hope, or consolation, to the abject being before me? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Mr. Bob Sawyer glanced at his friend with a look of abject apprehension, and once more cried, 'Come in. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Abject tears stood in its eyes, and stained the blotched red of its cheeks. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- The culprit was moved to a few abject tears by these words and their pathetic tone. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- Yet mine shall not be the submission of abject slavery. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- Why should you crawl abject before the understanding of a flea? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
埃尔伯特编辑