Baseness

(noun.) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values.

亚瑟校对

• What baseness! 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Do you think I would remain an instant in the company of any man whom I suspected of such baseness as that? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The baseness of communing and intriguing with the fellow who would have set that stain upon her, and upon her brother too, was attained. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He retired to the old home town of Arbois, and sought to d istract his mind from the contemplation of human baseness. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• If they imitate they should imitate, not any meanness or baseness, but the good only; for the mask which the actor wears is apt to become his face. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Villainy is the matter; baseness is the matter; deception, fraud, conspiracy, are the matter; and the name of the whole atrocious mass is--HEEP! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• It seldom happens, that we do not think an enemy vicious, and can distinguish betwixt his opposition to our interest and real villainy or baseness. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• A man cannot serve two masters, and as the question of whose side you would embrace was simply one of bribery, I took advantage of your baseness. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• There could be naught of cruelty or baseness beneath that godlike exterior. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Besides that I should know it to be hopeless, I should know it to be a baseness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• How was he to live on without vindicating himself among people who suspected him of baseness? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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