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

• He is contemptible for his meanness.
  他很卑劣，实在可鄙。
• 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。
• He stooped to such meanness.
  他堕落得这般卑鄙。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• This man is very mean and famous for his meanness.
  这人很吝啬，也因吝啬而出名。
• 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。
• The sense of meanness died in jon.
  乔恩的自咎感消失了。