Contemptible

(adj.) deserving of contempt or scorn .

整理:莎丽

• I thought our life here was contemptible. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Moreover, Egypt was a part of the Turkish empire, by no means a contemptible power in those days. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Harriet's claims to marry well are not so contemptible as you represent them. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• I forced back the contemptible tears that were no relief to ME, and that only distressed HER, and reasoned and pleaded as calmly as I could. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• They think themselves generous if they give our children a five-pound note, and us contemptible if we are without one. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• However, the king treated him with tenderness, as a well-meaning man, but of a low contemptible understanding. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• The very breathing of the figure was contemptible, as it laboured and rattled in that operation, like a blundering clock. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• You will find very little to repay you for your trouble in this contemptible _thing_, sir,' replied Slurk, bestowing a Satanic frown on Pott. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Wy don't you give in, and tell the Chancellorship that you're wery sorry for makin' his court contemptible, and you won't do so no more? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Why had he not stayed among the crowd of whom she asked nothing--but only prayed that they might be less contemptible? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Treasure-trove was, in these times, considered as no contemptible part of the revenue of the greatest sovereigns in Europe. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• His being a clergyman would be only for gentility's sake, and I think there is nothing more contemptible than such imbecile gentility. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I had a contemptible fool for a husband. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Militarism is the great preserver of our ideals of hardihood, and human life with no use for hardihood would be contemptible. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It was a contemptible crime then and a dangerous crime, and she had shared in it, and it was associated with the vestry of the church. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• By being contemptible we set men's minds, to the tune of contempt. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Never mind, Harriet, I shall not be a poor old maid; and it is poverty only which makes celibacy contemptible to a generous public! 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Might, could, would--they are contemptible auxiliaries. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• This kind of fort, however contemptible, is a sufficient defence against Indians who had no cannon. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Solomon in all his glory was Solomon with the elements of the contemptible lurking in every fold of his robes and in every corner of his palace. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I can't tell him to his face that he is the most contemptible of living creatures, after that! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• For Gerald came down like a sledge-hammer with his assertions, anything the little German said was merely contemptible rubbish. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Does it not strike you, Mr. Yorke, that for a mere penniless adventurer to aspire to a rich woman's hand is presumptuous--contemptible? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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