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

• 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。
• But in French culture it symbolizes meanness, war, and evil women.
  而在法国文化中，它却代表着卑鄙、战争和恶妇。
• This man is very mean and famous for his meanness.
  这人很吝啬，也因吝啬而出名。
• 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。
• 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 wind really meanness, and my mouth close dry.
  这风真鄙陋，把我的嘴都亲干了。
• 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。
• In his greasy morass of meanness and selfishness.
  他卑鄙自私的泥泞沼泽。
• Well, they were honest eyes, he concluded, and in them was neither smallness nor meanness.
  好了，他的结论是自己这对眼睛是诚恳的，其中没有小气和卑劣。
• 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。