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

• Caring and amazingly supportive, they didn't want other people's meanness to drive me into isolation.
  父母对我关怀备至，给了我极大的支持，他们不想让别人的冷漠使我陷于孤独。
• All these-all the meanness and agony without end I sitting look out upon
  所有这些&这一切无穷的痛苦与卑劣，我坐而眺望
• If I should turn myself inside out, my rags and meanness would indeed appear.
  要是我把自己的内里翻出来，我的破烂和卑鄙就真要献丑了。
• 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。
• 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。
• This in no sense is due to meanness.
  这绝不是出于吝啬。
• That's a typical illustration of his meanness.
  那是说明他为人卑鄙的典型例子。
• 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。
• 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。