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
  Synonym:minginessniggardlinessniggardnessparsimonyparsimoniousnesstightnesstightfistednesscloseness
• the quality of being deliberately mean
  Synonym:beastliness

双语例句

• What revolted him most was such meanness.
  最使他反感的是这种卑劣行径。
• The wind really meanness, and my mouth close dry.
  这风真鄙陋，把我的嘴都亲干了。
• His stupidity is rivalled only by his meanness.
  只有他的吝啬可以与他的愚蠢相配。
• If I should turn myself inside out, my rags and meanness would indeed appear.
  要是我把自己的内里翻出来，我的破烂和卑鄙就真要献丑了。
• He stooped to such meanness.
  他堕落得这般卑鄙。
• She had seen enough of her pride, her meanness.
  她看够了费拉尔斯太太的骄傲、平庸。
• 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。
• But in French culture it symbolizes meanness, war, and evil women.
  而在法国文化中，它却代表着卑鄙、战争和恶妇。
• 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 his greasy morass of meanness and selfishness.
  他卑鄙自私的泥泞沼泽。