英:[ə'beɪsmənt]
美:[ə'beɪsmənt]
英:[ə'beɪsmənt]
美:[ə'beɪsmənt]
n.
贬低
谦卑
屈辱
降低
a·base·ment
beIs mnt
词根:abase
vt.abase 使…谦卑;降低…的品格;降低…的地位
verb
transitive verb
formal to lower in rank, office, prestige, or esteem … the shame that had abased him within and without …—James Joyce
abase oneself
archaic to lower physically
As we enter among them the great elephant makes us a bow in the best style of elephantine courtesy, bending lowly down his mountain bulk, with trunk abased and leg thrust out behind.—Nathaniel Hawthorne
15世纪早期,“尴尬,畏惧,恐惧”,源自 abase 和 -ment。降价的意义出现于15世纪中期; 降低等级的行动是在1560年代; 降低身份的状态是从1610年代开始的。
alteration (conformed to base >entry 3) of Middle English abessen, abaisen, abaschen, borrowed from Anglo-French abesser, abaisser, from a-, prefix in transitive verbs (going back to Latin ad-) + -besser, going back to Vulgar Latin *bassiāre "to lower," derivative of Late Latin bassus "fat, short, low" — more at ad-, base >entry 3
The first known use of abase was in the 14th century
abashverb
to destroy the self-control or self-confidence of
abaseverb
to lower in rank or position : humble, degrade
1 The characteristics of kafkaesque s personality mechanism was fear and self-abasement.
恐惧和自卑是卡夫卡人格机制的主要特征。
2 They are all the wonderful marriage while it is not have the abasement relationship.
同是两桩比较美满的婚姻.不含屈辱的和亲关系.
3 Chris is only one of his many admirers, and so her devotion takes on an air of ritual abasement before a Great Man.
4 For modern China the opium wars are a symbol of national abasement; the painful counterpoint to its present-day might.
5 Now he is in the depths of abasement, now he is very haughty on the summits of pride.
6 Although its abasement is very much in the news, this is a city that has been in the process of dying for a very long time.
7 They even join in the “Wal-Mart cheer” when required to do so at meetings, I’m told by the evening fitting room lady, though I am fortunate enough never to witness this final abasement.
8 He sat with his eyes fixed, in the depths of abasement.
9 Master self - abasement The other place comes to bastard here.
主人自谦:“我们这里王八都是外地来的. ”
10 It does not stand for Spain's best, an artificial, foreign creation where passed hours of the nation's abasement.
11 He displayed much diplomatic ability, and his abasement at Canossa may fairly be regarded as a move of policy to weaken the pope’s position at the cost of a personal humiliation to himself.
12 Everyone in Palestinian security seems to have at least a story or two of his own abasement.
13 Thus through the long hours she swung between terror and abasement, each one mastering her in turn.
14 The abasement of family is the saddest tragedy of government overreach.
15 The warning was issued on the basis of Article 6 of the Russian Law on Counteracting Extremist Activity, which defines extremism as, among other things, “the abasement of national dignity.”
16 During this period of antagonism to Rome the University of Paris had contributed no little to the abasement of the Inquisition by supplanting it as an investigator of doctrine and judge of heresy.
17 To the extent, one might say, that any of us lacks equal citizenship stature, and so lacking find ourselves living in some form of abasement or servitude, neither equal nor fully free.
18 Public atonement requires public abasement and for public abasement, you need television.
19 A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation.
20 At a moment of abasement the child notices the wounded paw of a squirrel.