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

• This man is very mean and famous for his meanness.
  这人很吝啬，也因吝啬而出名。
• 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。
• She had seen enough of her pride, her meanness.
  她看够了费拉尔斯太太的骄傲、平庸。
• He never descends to such meanness.
  他决不干那种卑鄙事。
• This in no sense is due to meanness.
  这绝不是出于吝啬。
• It explains most happiness and unhappiness, most success and failure, most greatness and meanness in life.
  它解释了人们生活中的大部分幸福和不幸，大部分成功和失败，以及大部分高尚和卑劣。
• That's a typical illustration of his meanness.
  那是说明他为人卑鄙的典型例子。
• 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。
• I tried to find the root cause of this meanness in me.
  我力图找出我这种卑鄙性格的根本原因。