meanness
英
美
n. 下贱卑劣卑鄙;粗野;劣等无价值;无聊;吝啬小气
复数:meannesses
BNC.21894 / COCA.19328
英英释义
noun
- extreme stinginess
- the quality of being deliberately mean
双语例句
- This in no sense is due to meanness.
这绝不是出于吝啬。 - This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.
这个在现实生活和精神生活中同样艰难的规则,诠释着整个伟大和渺小的区别。 - Therefore, in a spirit of meanness, rancour, cynicism and misanthropy, let us revive an old tradition by wondering if there is sometimes a little more to philanthropy than compassion and benevolence.
这样吧,让我们以一种自私吝啬、充满敌意、玩世不恭和愤世嫉俗的精神,重拾一个古老的传统,想想是否慈善事业有时不仅仅与热情和仁爱有关。 - For at best their victory never dawns on the shining new world they had dreamed of, cleansed of all human meanness.
因为胜利的曙光无论如何也不会照耀在他们梦想中的那个摆脱了人类一切卑劣的灿烂的新世界上。 - In my case, I'm not so concerned about neatness, but I won't tolerate meanness, lying, or anything violent or dangerous.
对我来说,我不太关注整洁,但我不能容忍刻薄、撒谎、以及任何暴力和危险的事。 - She had seen enough of her pride, her meanness.
她看够了费拉尔斯太太的骄傲、平庸。 - Joe told me that there was a great deal; of meanness in politics, which was crying stinking fish, because he is a politician himself.
乔对我说,政坛上有许多卑鄙的勾当。他这么说可真是往自己脸上抹黑,因为他本人就是个政客。 - All these-all the meanness and agony without end I sitting look out upon
所有这些&这一切无穷的痛苦与卑劣,我坐而眺望 - He watches every penny he spends, which gives him a reputation for meanness.
他每花一分钟都要考虑再三,这使他获得吝啬的名声。 - He stooped to such meanness.
他堕落得这般卑鄙。