Insignificance
[,ɪnsɪg'nɪfəkəns]
解釋/意思:
(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
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Unimportance, paltriness, triviality, emptiness, nothingness.
校對:卢瑟
例句/造句/用法:
- Gerty felt the poverty, the insignificance of her surroundings: she beheld her life as it must appear to Lily. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Your memory does me more honour than my insignificance deserves. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- 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. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- 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. 雪麗.
- Her days of insignificance and evil were over. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Let us hope, therefore, that her being there may teach her her own insignificance. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- The inability thus to solace her outraged feelings gave her a paralyzing sense of insignificance. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- 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. 維萊特.
- No one looked at her, no one seemed aware of her presence; she was probing the very depths of insignificance. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- He accepted the complete insignificance of this household, for him. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Fifty years after Aristotle's death the Lyceum had already dwindled to insignificance. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I thought those were large rocks, but they sank into insignificance compared with those which formed another section of the platform. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- She had a sense of deeper empoverishment--of an inner destitution compared to which outward conditions dwindled into insignificance. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- To-day the place and region have gone back to the insignificance from which Edison's genius lifted them so startlingly. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
手打:洛伊斯