Insignificance
[,ɪnsɪg'nɪfəkəns]
解释:
(n.) The condition or quality of being insignificant; want of significance, sense, or meaning; as, the insignificance of words or phrases.
(n.) Want of force or effect; unimportance; pettiness; inefficacy; as, the insignificance of human art.
(n.) Want of claim to consideration or notice; want of influence or standing; meanness.
整理:怀亚特
同义词及近义词:
n. Unimportance, paltriness, triviality, emptiness, nothingness.
校对:卢瑟
例句:
- Gerty felt the poverty, the insignificance of her surroundings: she beheld her life as it must appear to Lily. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Your memory does me more honour than my insignificance deserves. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- It was not so with me; and the question of rank and right dwindled to insignificance in my eyes, when I pictured the scene of suffering Athens. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- The clergy were sacred beings in Miss Ainley's eyes; no matter what might be the insignificance of the individual, his station made him holy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Her days of insignificance and evil were over. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- Let us hope, therefore, that her being there may teach her her own insignificance. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- The inability thus to solace her outraged feelings gave her a paralyzing sense of insignificance. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- I don't know what he said, except that he recommended each to penetrate herself with a sense of her personal insignificance. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- No one looked at her, no one seemed aware of her presence; she was probing the very depths of insignificance. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- He accepted the complete insignificance of this household, for him. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Then the caller, no matter how important or what his mission, is likely to realize his utter insignificance and be sent away without accomplishing his object. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Fifty years after Aristotle's death the Lyceum had already dwindled to insignificance. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- I thought those were large rocks, but they sank into insignificance compared with those which formed another section of the platform. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- She had a sense of deeper empoverishment--of an inner destitution compared to which outward conditions dwindled into insignificance. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- To-day the place and region have gone back to the insignificance from which Edison's genius lifted them so startlingly. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
手打:洛伊斯