Abase

(a.) To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye.

(a.) To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade.

整理:罗拉

• You abase them more than is needful, in the faint hope that others may say a word in their behalf--which won't happen. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I wouldn't abase myself by descending to hold no conversation with him,' replied the Dodger. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• As they abased themselves before him, Mr. Micawber took a seat, and waved his hand in his most courtly manner. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Not humbled before God, as having failed in trust towards Him; not degraded and abased in Mr. Thornton's sight. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• If it were only for her sake, I wish he would come, and then at least I should know how much I was abased in his eyes. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Only once she cried aloud, at the stinging thought of the faithlessness which gave birth to that abasing falsehood. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• It was humbly done, but picturesquely, and was not abasing to the doer. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It is he that abases the proud and favours the humble. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.

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