ignoble

英 [ɪɡˈnəʊbl]

美 [ɪɡˈnoʊbl]

adj.  卑劣的; 不诚实的; 不光彩的

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BNC.33181 / COCA.28022

牛津词典

adj.

• 卑劣的；不诚实的；不光彩的
  not good or honest; that should make you feel shame
  1. ignoble thoughts
     可耻的想法
  2. an ignoble person
     卑鄙的人

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 卑鄙可耻的;不光彩的
  If you describe something asignoble, you mean that it is bad and something to be ashamed of.
  1. …ignoble thoughts.
     卑鄙的想法
  2. ...an ignoble episode from their country's past.
     他们国家历史中一段不光彩的插曲

双语例句

• Especially, he has just rescued me, it's ignoble to do so.
  尤其他刚刚还救了我，那样做是卑鄙的。
• It was some foul parody, some infamous ignoble satire.
  这是一个卑劣的讽刺，一个鄙俗、邪恶的嘲弄。
• To be yourself is very difficult, because you think that what you are is ignoble, and that if you could only change what you are into something noble it would be marvellous;
  做你自己是非常困难的事，因为你总认为自己是卑微的，如果你能把自己变得神圣一定很棒。
• The fear of death is somewhat abject and ignoble.
  怕死就未免有些可鄙，有些不光彩了。
• She is accused of playing an ignoble part in the plot.
  她被指责在阴谋中充当了不光彩的角色。
• For my part I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part ( Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.).
  至于我，我认为一些罪犯的脱逃比政府扮演不光彩角色的罪行还要轻（新立佛文德尔霍姆）。
• Nobility is the epitaph for the noble and ignobility, the pass for the ignoble.
  高尚是高尚者的墓志铭，卑鄙是卑鄙者的通行证。
• You can judge what he is like by his ignoble actions.
  通过他的卑鄙行为你可以判断他是个什么样的人。
• And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes that hold our brothers in Angola, in Mozambique and in South Africa in subhuman bondage have been toppled and destroyed;
  直到卑鄙和不满的制度，举行我们的兄弟在安哥拉，在莫桑比克和南非在非人的枷锁已被推翻，并销毁；
• An up-to-date Christmas list requires some thought about who matters to you, for reasons noble or ignoble.
  要列一份最新的圣诞卡寄送名单，你需要思考一下谁对你来说很重要，不管是出于光明正大的理由，还是上不了台面的理由。