a. 绝望无助的, 可怜的, 糟透的, 卑鄙的, 自卑的

[法] 卑鄙的, 卑下的, 可怜的

Abject \Ab*ject"\ ([a^]b*j[e^]kt"), v. t. [From {Abject}, a.]
To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower;
to debase. [Obs.] --Donne.


Abject \Ab"ject\ ([a^]b"j[e^]kt), n.
A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a
castaway. [Obs.]

Shall these abjects, these victims, these outcasts,
know any thing of pleasure? --I. Taylor.

abject \ab"ject\ ([a^]b"j[e^]kt), a. [L. abjectus, p. p. of
abjicere to throw away; ab + jacere to throw. See {Jet} a
shooting forth.]
1. Cast down; low-lying. [Obs.]

From the safe shore their floating carcasses
And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown
Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood.
--Milton.

2. Degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject
posture, fortune, thoughts. ``Base and abject
flatterers.'' --Addison. ``An abject liar.'' --Macaulay.

And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. --Shak.

3. Sunk to a low condition; down in spirit or hope;
miserable; -- of persons.

4. Humiliating; degrading; wretched; -- of situations; as,
abject poverty.
[PJC]

Syn: Mean; groveling; cringing; mean-spirited; slavish;
ignoble; worthless; vile; beggarly; contemptible;
degraded.