Ignoble

(adj.) completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose; 'something cowardly and ignoble in his attitude'; 'I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part'- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. .

(adj.) not of the nobility; 'of ignoble (or ungentle) birth'; 'untitled civilians' .

珍妮特编辑

• That way of speaking is ignoble, Anselmo said. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Is not the noble that which subjects the beast to the man, or rather to the god in man; and the ignoble that which subjects the man to the beast? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Her life, begun not unprosperously, had come down to this--to a mean prison and a long, ignoble bondage. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I know it is ignoble: a mere fever of the flesh: not, I declare, the convulsion of the soul. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• He is not ugly, Shirley, pleaded Caroline; he is not ignoble. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Is not the noble that which subjects the beast to the man, or rather to the God in man; the ignoble, that which subjects the man to the beast? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The fire was not dissipated yet, and she thought it was ignoble in her husband not to apologize to her. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Vitruvius was far from sharing the view of Archimedes that art which was connected with the satisfaction of daily needs was necessarily ignoble and vulgar. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Shall Hellas, Mother of the West, In servitude ignoble rest? 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• He went so far as to say that every kind of art is ignoble i f connected with daily needs. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• It is ignoble—yes; but it is pleasant. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Is that not rather ignoble? 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• It is ignoble. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• It would be ignoble of me not to participate in this action because of the accident of this message. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Mr. Guppy is engaged in collecting the Galaxy Gallery of British Beauty from the wall and depositing those works of art in their old ignoble band-box. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• In the canton of Berne it is so high as a sixth part of the price of all noble fiefs, and a tenth part of that of all ignoble ones. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Nay, he said, the reverse of ignoble. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• A woman may have reason, though she is not without heart, and if I felt 'worse luck,' it was no ignoble feeling--it was only too natural. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Am I so ignoble? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• But eighteen glasses of gin consumed among boxers in an ignoble pot-house--it was an odious crime and not to be pardoned readily. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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