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 in no sense is due to meanness.
  这绝不是出于吝啬。
• The meanness of anonymity gave a shuddering obscenity to the moment.
  这种匿名的卑鄙行为使他一时觉得下流得让人吃不消。
• He never descends to such meanness.
  他决不干那种卑鄙事。
• He is above meanness and deceit.
  他不屑于做卑鄙和欺骗的事情。
• He stooped to such meanness.
  他堕落得这般卑鄙。
• 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。
• The sense of meanness died in jon.
  乔恩的自咎感消失了。
• What revolted him most was such meanness.
  最使他反感的是这种卑劣行径。
• 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。
• 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。