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
- the quality of being deliberately mean
双语例句
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - In his greasy morass of meanness and selfishness.
他卑鄙自私的泥泞沼泽。 - That's a typical illustration of his meanness.
那是说明他为人卑鄙的典型例子。 - 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。 - What revolted him most was such meanness.
最使他反感的是这种卑劣行径。 - Scarlett, it was n't altogether meanness that kept me from giving you the money you wanted.
思嘉，你上次向我借钱时，我没有给你，那可并不完全是小气呀。 - 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。