Meanness
['mi:nnis]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess.
(n.) A mean act; as, to be guilty of meanness.
整理:康拉德
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Smallness, littleness, scantiness, slenderness, lowness, poverty, meagreness, poorness.[2]. Abjectness, vileness, baseness, contemptibleness, abasement, despicableness.[3]. Illiberality, ungenerousness, sordidness, penuriousness.
乔安妮手打
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Penuriousness, littleness, selfishness, baseness, smallness, illiberality,ungenerousness, sordidness
ANT:Nobleness, unselfishness, liberality, generousness, large-heartedness
手打:南希
例句/造句/用法:
- Was it for him to have the shame of buying her, or the meanness of punishing her? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I had been hitherto, all my life, a stranger to courts, for which I was unqualified by the meanness of my condition. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Wealth, I said, and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Bred in meanness and hard dealing, this had rescued him to be a man of honourable mind and open hand. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Nay, the high priests of this worship had the man before them as a protest against their meanness. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- In the meanness of your nature you revile me with the meanness of my birth. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- A twelve months' voyage at sea would make of an ordinary man a very miracle of meanness. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- As a matter of course, they fawned upon me in my prosperity with the basest meanness. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- MY DEAR HARRIETTE, began young Berkeley, and then went on, with his usual, incorrigible duplicity and meanness. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- They would find out that the blood in his veins was as free from the taint of meanness as theirs. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- It would be very unkind of you to suppose that I ever attributed any meanness to you, she began. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- If any service is very much underpaid, it is very apt to suffer by the meanness and incapacity of the greater part of those who are employed in it. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Love can excuse anything except meanness; but meanness kills love, cripples even natural affection; without esteem true love cannot exist. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- If they imitate they should imitate, not any meanness or baseness, but the good only; for the mask which the actor wears is apt to become his face. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I can't explain exactly, but I want to be above the little meannesses and follies and faults that spoil so many women. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
編輯:西娅