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meanness

['mi:nnis]

n. 卑鄙；吝啬；劣等

英英释义

1. the quality of being deliberately mean

2. extreme stinginess

考试真题

Hetty's meanness was well-known.

实用场景例句

This very careful attitude to money can sometimes border on meanness.: 这种对待金钱的过分谨慎的态度有时几近于吝啬。

They gave him a dig about his meanness.: 他们在挖苦他吝啬.

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.

A capitalist will not stick at any meanness in making money.: 只要能赚钱,资本家什么卑鄙的勾当都干得出来.

He never descends to such meanness.: 他决不干那种卑鄙事.

He stooped to such meanness.: 他堕落得这般卑鄙.

We call meanness nobility and hatred honor.: 我们善恶不分,是非不明.

Roger's hands off him now the fear drained and the indestructible meanness welled up.: 罗杰的拳头刚刚离身,怕得要死的心情刚一松动,他那百摧不垮的无赖脾性又上来了.

Love can excuse anything except Meanness; but Meanness kills love, cripples even Natural Affection.: “爱情”,能够原谅除了“卑鄙”以外的一切, “卑鄙”会杀害“爱情”, 甚至损伤“自然的感情”.

She would not see the ugly disorder and meanness of the world he dwelt in.: 也许她就会无视他所生活的世界是何等的紊乱和寒伧.

We became quite renowned as a compound of pride, avarice, brutality, and meanness.: 我知道这个人不是个东西,集骄傲、贪婪、残暴、卑鄙于一身.

You'll never cure him of his meanness; it's in his bones.: 你决不可能治好他那小气的毛病, 他本性就是如此.

This man is very mean and famous for his meanness.: 这人很吝啬,也因吝啬而出名.

Her character was compounded in equal parts of meanness and generosity.: 她的为人慷慨吝啬参半.

He will not stick at any meanness in making - money.: 只要能赚钱他什么卑鄙的勾当都能干得出来.

双语例句

1. This very careful attitude to money can sometimes border on meanness.: 这种对待金钱的过分谨慎的态度有时几近于吝啬。

2. Whatever faults he may have, meanness is not one of them.: 不管他有什么缺点,可他没有吝啬这一缺点.

3. He is above meanness and deceit.: 他不至于搞卑鄙和欺骗行为.

4. They gave him a dig about his meanness.: 他们在挖苦他吝啬.

5. 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.

英文词源

meanness (n.): 1550s, "weakness," from mean (adj.) + -ness. Sense of "baseness, poverty" is from 1650s; that of "stinginess" from 1755.

词态变化

动词: mean;形容词: meanly;

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