Abject

(adj.) showing humiliation or submissiveness; 'an abject apology' .

(adj.) of the most contemptible kind; 'abject cowardice'; 'a low stunt to pull'; 'a low-down sneak'; 'his miserable treatment of his family'; 'You miserable skunk!'; 'a scummy rabble'; 'a scurvy trick' .

(adj.) most unfortunate or miserable; 'the most abject slaves joined in the revolt'; 'abject poverty' .

(adj.) showing utter resignation or hopelessness; 'abject surrender' .

校对:蒂米

• This straightforward bullying was met by abject submission. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They trailed off to the dealer, the handsome but abject young fellow hanging a little aside. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Then, what submission, what cringing and fawning, what servility, what abject humiliation! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The poor side of a debtor's prison is, as its name imports, that in which the most miserable and abject class of debtors are confined. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• His movements were graceful, yet curiously abject, slinking. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• That abject hypocrite, Pumblechook, nodded again, and said, with a patronizing laugh, It's more than that, Mum. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Miserable little propitiators of a remorseless Idol, how abject we were to him! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• And if anything could have made him look more abject or more dismally ridiculous than before, it would have been his so displaying himself. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Well, well, then--Bill Sikes,' said the Jew, with abject humility. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• They were by no means abject slaves; in later Babylon their lives and property were protected by elaborate laws. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But Mrs. Yeobright had well considered all that, and she only thought how best to make her visit appear to Eustacia not abject but wise. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• They are strong and hardy, but of a cowardly spirit, and, by consequence, insolent, abject, and cruel. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• It makes boys manly and courageous; and the very vices of an abject race tend to strengthen in them the opposite virtues. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• They are the sorriest beasts that breathe--the most abject--the most pitiful. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• A characteristic, but not exactly complimentary, congratulation, returned Laurie, still in an abject attitude, but beaming with satisfaction. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Those abject wretches--' 'Don't call names, Rokesmith,' said Mr Boffin. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I could say nothing in reply; for who could offer hope, or consolation, to the abject being before me? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Mr. Bob Sawyer glanced at his friend with a look of abject apprehension, and once more cried, 'Come in. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Abject tears stood in its eyes, and stained the blotched red of its cheeks. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The culprit was moved to a few abject tears by these words and their pathetic tone. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Yet mine shall not be the submission of abject slavery. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Why should you crawl abject before the understanding of a flea? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

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