Ignoble
[ɪg'nəʊb(ə)l] or [ɪɡ'nobl]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose; 'something cowardly and ignoble in his attitude'; 'I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part'- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. .
(adj.) not of the nobility; 'of ignoble (or ungentle) birth'; 'untitled civilians' .
珍妮特編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Of low birth or family; not noble; not illustrious; plebeian; common; humble.
(a.) Not honorable, elevated, or generous; base.
(a.) Not a true or noble falcon; -- said of certain hawks, as the goshawk.
(v. t.) To make ignoble.
錄入:里基
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Plebeian, vulgar, untitled, base-born, low-born, mean, low.[2]. Worthless, insignificant, mean, contemptible.[3]. Dishonorable, disgraceful, infamous, base.
錄入:内丽
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Moun, base, dishonorable, humble, plebian, lowly
ANT:Honorable, noble, eminent, exalted, lordly, grand, notable, illustrious
整理:马文
解釋/意思:
adj. of low birth: mean or worthless: dishonourable.—v.i. to degrade.—ns. Ignobil′ity Ignō′bleness.—adv. Ignō′bly.
整理:诺里斯
例句/造句/用法:
- That way of speaking is ignoble, Anselmo said. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Is not the noble that which subjects the beast to the man, or rather to the god in man; and the ignoble that which subjects the man to the beast? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Her life, begun not unprosperously, had come down to this--to a mean prison and a long, ignoble bondage. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I know it is ignoble: a mere fever of the flesh: not, I declare, the convulsion of the soul. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- He is not ugly, Shirley, pleaded Caroline; he is not ignoble. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Is not the noble that which subjects the beast to the man, or rather to the God in man; the ignoble, that which subjects the man to the beast? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The fire was not dissipated yet, and she thought it was ignoble in her husband not to apologize to her. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Vitruvius was far from sharing the view of Archimedes that art which was connected with the satisfaction of daily needs was necessarily ignoble and vulgar. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Shall Hellas, Mother of the West, In servitude ignoble rest? 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- He went so far as to say that every kind of art is ignoble i f connected with daily needs. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- It is ignoble—yes; but it is pleasant. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Is that not rather ignoble? 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- It is ignoble. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- It would be ignoble of me not to participate in this action because of the accident of this message. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Mr. Guppy is engaged in collecting the Galaxy Gallery of British Beauty from the wall and depositing those works of art in their old ignoble band-box. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- In the canton of Berne it is so high as a sixth part of the price of all noble fiefs, and a tenth part of that of all ignoble ones. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Nay, he said, the reverse of ignoble. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- A woman may have reason, though she is not without heart, and if I felt 'worse luck,' it was no ignoble feeling--it was only too natural. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Am I so ignoble? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- But eighteen glasses of gin consumed among boxers in an ignoble pot-house--it was an odious crime and not to be pardoned readily. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
整理:诺里斯