Lowest
[ləʊɪst] or [lo]
解釋/意思:
(adv.) in the lowest position; nearest the ground; 'the branch with the big peaches on it hung lowest'.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The men engaged in the Mexican war were brave, and the officers of the regular army, from highest to lowest, were educated in their profession. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- We have been speaking of life in its lowest terms--as a physical thing. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- It was indeed a moveable pair of stairs, the lowest end placed at ten feet distance from the wall of the chamber. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- The hole at the bottom of the lowest was covered with a small pot, into the sides of which had been bored a number of holes. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- There are three great series of strata beneath the Silurian system in Canada, in the lowest of which the Eozoon is found. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- They entered it in one of its lowest points, and drove for some time through a beautiful wood stretching over a wide extent. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- The lowest estimate was made by Lord Kelvin in 1867. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- These had elected their officers from highest to lowest and were accepted with their organizations as they were, except in two instances. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Now, mark, Boffin,' returned Silas: 'Mark 'em well, because they're the lowest terms and the only terms. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- They were at the lowest now; they could not be worse. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- In operation the material passed first through the upper and middle rolls, and then between the middle and lowest rolls. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I no longer adhere to my intention of giving with my own mouth rudimentary education to the lowest class. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- We should in the present times consider this as a very high price for a pair of stockings to a servant of the poorest and lowest order. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Even with this last serious draw-back, however, the lowest of the various estimates given was twenty thousand pounds. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- But, in the present state of the Spanish market, gold is certainly somewhat nearer to this lowest price than silver. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Even the lowest soldier is a god, and has his slaves to wait upon him. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Social relationships and modes of organized action are reduced to their lowest terms. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- With all organic beings, excepting perhaps some of the very lowest, sexual reproduction seems to be essentially similar. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Betteredge dropped to the lowest depth of familiarity with me, without a struggle to save himself. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Or you shall stoop to the lowest infamy of all, and force your way out. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Orders had been given, long before this movement began, to cut down the baggage of officers and men to the lowest point possible. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Murchison at their head, were until recently convinced that we beheld in the organic remains of the lowest Silurian stratum the first dawn of life. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- This lowest price is that which barely replaces, with a moderate profit, the stock which must be employed in bringing the commodity thither. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The lowest roll was set in a fixed bearing at the bottom of the frame, and, therefore, could only turn around on its axis. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The army of these crusaders, according to the lowest estimates, consisted of 90,000 infantry and 40,000 horsemen. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The legal rate, it is to be observed, though it ought to be somewhat above, ought not to be much above the lowest market rate. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- We are compelled to accept, not the highest, but the lowest account of the origin of human society. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- What I would direct then, is that you commence at once reducing baggage to the very lowest possible standard. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- But struggling with these better feelings was pride,--the vice of the lowest and most debased creatures no less than of the high and self-assured. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- In my heart and my conscience I can say it, Laura's hopes for the future are at their lowest ebb. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
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