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

• His meanness has become something of a standing joke.
  他的小气已成了经常引人发笑的笑料。
• 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。
• 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。
• She had seen enough of her pride, her meanness.
  她看够了费拉尔斯太太的骄傲、平庸。
• This in no sense is due to meanness.
  这绝不是出于吝啬。
• His stupidity is rivalled only by his meanness.
  只有他的吝啬可以与他的愚蠢相配。
• 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。
• What revolted him most was such meanness.
  最使他反感的是这种卑劣行径。
• He is above meanness and deceit.
  他不屑于做卑鄙和欺骗的事情。
• The sense of meanness died in jon.
  乔恩的自咎感消失了。