Sordid
['sɔːdɪd]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) meanly avaricious and mercenary; 'sordid avarice'; 'sordid material interests' .
克莉丝汀編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Filthy; foul; dirty.
(a.) Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals.
(a.) Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly.
校對:玛吉
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Mean, base, vile, low, degraded.[2]. Covetous, avaricious, stingy, miserly, niggardly, close, illiberal, ungenerous, penurious, close-fisted.
編輯:帕梅拉
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Dirty, filthy, foul, gross, vile, base, mean, avaricious, covetous, selfish,venal, niggardly, beggarly, closefisted, hidebound, greedy
ANT:Pure, liberal, generous, unselfish, honorable, uncovetous, openhanded,high-minded, profuse, lavish, prodigal, extravagant, overliberal
贝琪校對
解釋/意思:
adj. dirty squalid: of a dull colour: morally foul vile: mean: meanly avaricious.—n. Sor′des filth foul accretions on the teeth in low forms of fever.—adv. Sor′didly.—ns. Sor′didness state of being sordid; Sor′dor filth dregs.
校對:洛丽塔
例句/造句/用法:
- This is no sordid suit. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Sordid in my grief, sordid in my love, sordid in my miserable escape from the darker side of both, oh see the ruin I am, and hate me, shun me! 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Is THAT spiritual, her bullying, her conceit, her sordid materialism? 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- And he is worth--not to say his sordid expenses--but thrice his weight in gold, said Richard. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- But if I had mine, glancing at the cousins, there should be no brambles of sordid realities in such a path as that. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the things it looks upon to bless. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- There is no production in us now, only sordid and foul mechanicalness. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- She's a fishwife, a fishwife, she is such a materialiSt. And all so sordid. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Amidst this sordid scene, sat a man with his clenched hands resting on his knees, and his eyes bent on the ground. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The savage is sordid. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- And she loathed it, the sordid, too-familiar place! 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I could not bear to return to the sordid village, where, besides, no prospect of aid was visible. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- One could not bear any more of this shame of sordid routine and mechanical nullity. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I saw some, with naturally elevated tendencies and good feelings, kept down amongst sordid privations and harassing griefs. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I mention it now, only as a corroboration (though I hope it may be needless) of my being free from the sordid design attributed to me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- A gloomy house the Bower, with sordid signs on it of having been, through its long existence as Harmony Jail, in miserly holding. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Now one was not a child, and one knew that the soul was a prisoner within this sordid vast edifice of life, and there was no escape, save in death. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- What wonder that the sordid lights of work-day prudence should pale before the glory of a hope like theirs in the full splendor of its fruition? 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- She watched the sordid streets of the town go by beneath her, as if she were a spirit disconnected from the material universe. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- You think me horribly sordid, don't you? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Everything is a ghoulish replica of the real world, a replica, a ghoul, all soiled, everything sordid. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- They were hideous and sordid, during his childhood they had been sores in his consciousness. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- A magnificent feast delights us, and a sordid one displeases. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Yet forward she went, through the whole sordid gamut of pettiness, the long amorphous, gritty street. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Will she forget what she knows of my poor ambition, my sordid schemes? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- In his own tim e he was rather reproached for what was c onsidered an undignified and sordid familiarity with observed facts. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- I never saw anything that did not proclaim the lady--nothing sordid, nothing soiled. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- How sordid life was, how it was a terrible shame to the soul, to live now! 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- To a man of my sentiments, however, the subject is deplorably sordid. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
校對:洛丽塔