The boy felt shamed of his abject poverty. 这个男孩因赤贫而感到羞耻。
He has achieved whatever work it was in him to do, the fear of death is somewhat abject and ignoble. 完成了他份内要做的所有工作,怕死就有点儿卑鄙和不光彩了。
He is an abject liar. 他是一个卑鄙的说谎者。
abject
[ adj ]
of the most contemptible kind
<adj.all> 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
most unfortunate or miserable
<adj.all> the most abject slaves joined in the revolt abject poverty
showing utter resignation or hopelessness
<adj.all> abject surrender
showing humiliation or submissiveness
<adj.all> an abject apology
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.
The three-quarters of the people who live in villages, many of them in abject poverty, will not enjoy the trickle-down of any drops of prosperity for many years to come.
Please accept those best wishes from the church of which I am an abject servant," he said.
We watch Aunt Baby scrabble from abject poverty to a useful calling as a midwife, see her deliver the baby of a mother near death, and finally witness her own fiery death in a blaze set by the Ku Klux Klan.
"People don't even buy food." Sub-Saharan Africa is in abject poverty because of overpopulation, a lack of resources in some countries, and mismanagement and corruption in others.
The trick, as the hospital governor explains, is not to plead abject poverty, because that would fail to impress the foreign visitors, but to persuade the minister that the place needs more money. In practice we never get that far.
How long Cubans will be willing to suffer abject poverty in support of their generalissimo's passions is an open question.