英:['sɔ:dɪdnɪs]
美:['sɔdɪdnɪs]
英:['sɔ:dɪdnɪs]
美:['sɔdɪdnɪs]
n.
肮脏
污秽
卑鄙
可耻
词根:sordid
adj.sordid 肮脏的;卑鄙的;利欲熏心的;色彩暗淡的
adv.sordidly 污秽地;不洁地;下贱地;卑鄙地
adjective
marked by baseness or grossness : vile
sordid motives
dirty, filthy
wretched, squalid
meanly avaricious : covetous
of a dull or muddy color
Latin sordidus, from sordes dirt — more at swart
The first known use of sordid was in 1606
sorghumnoun
any of a genus of Old World tropical grasses that look like cornespecially: one cultivated for grain, forage, or syrup
syrup made from a sorghum
sore1 of 3adjective
causing pain or distress
a sore subject
full of pain : tender
sore muscles
hurt or red and swollen so as to be or seem painful
sore runny eyes
accompanied by difficulties, hardship, or exertion
in a sore situation
angry sense 1a
my friend is sore at me
sore2 of 3noun
a sore spot on the bodyespecially: one (as an ulcer) with the tissues broken and usually infected
a cause of pain : affliction
sore3 of 3adverb
sorely
sore1 of 3adjective
causing pain or distress
a sore subject
full of pain : tender
sore muscles
hurt or red and swollen so as to be or seem painful
sore runny eyes
accompanied by difficulties, hardship, or exertion
in a sore situation
angry sense 1a
my friend is sore at me
sore2 of 3noun
a sore spot on the bodyespecially: one (as an ulcer) with the tissues broken and usually infected
a cause of pain : affliction
sore3 of 3adverb
sorely
sorelyadverb
in a sore manner
sore1 of 3adjective
causing pain or distress
a sore subject
full of pain : tender
sore muscles
hurt or red and swollen so as to be or seem painful
sore runny eyes
accompanied by difficulties, hardship, or exertion
in a sore situation
angry sense 1a
my friend is sore at me
sore2 of 3noun
a sore spot on the bodyespecially: one (as an ulcer) with the tissues broken and usually infected
a cause of pain : affliction
sore3 of 3adverb
sorely
sordidadjective
very dirty : filthy
sordid surroundings
vile sense 1a
a sordid life
meanly greedy : covetous
1 The sordidness and squalor of Canyon Pass was being from moment to moment etched more deeply on her brain.
2 And that no sordidness might pass therein He sentinelled the door with savage jinn, Invisible and with the flaming powers Of Sheol in their guarding scimitars.
3 Above whatever coarseness and sordidness there may be in actual life, there rises the ideal of a finer kind of man, with gentler manners and truer speech and braver action.
4 This is what provokes the most despair for Muslims: At worst, Trump’s voters condoned this sordidness to varying degrees; at best, they were apathetic to it.
5 In the five years he had lived there he had been quite oblivious to its sordidness.
6 The sordidness of the place seems to have worked a spell on him: he is content here.
这个臭气熏天的地方对他产生了魔力,他对这儿很满意。
7 He shared the sordid details of his past.
8 But you can have a good story without easy sordidness.
9 He had, it seems, an almost gleeful appreciation of shabbiness, sordidness, decay, misshapenness, and irregularity—falling houses, untended gardens, the mess and slime on the Thames down toward Gravesend.
10 The girl looked at him quickly, divined the sordidness of his thoughts, and puckered her brows in a frown.
11 No, there was no sordidness in the teachings of Franklin.
12 Besides, it would create an extra benefit for the NCAA: Including more little guys helps distract folks from the sordidness of Division I men’s basketball.
13 In fact, audiences now have become so blasé about accounts of celebrities' sordid personal lives that some stars are turning potential publicity nightmares into confessional coups.
14 Intellectually he wishes to “gild what felt more and more like the sordidness” of his time with Mitko.
15 The Hollywood Bowl represents L.A. in all its naked splendor, idealism, commercialism, diversity, communal aspirations toward equality, social division, tackiness and even sordidness.
16 There is no time when the human race shows itself in such beauty and in such heartless sordidness as in the time of grief.
17 It's this essential ambivalence we all feel about the urban landscape - that its sordidness and its beauty are somehow inseparable - that unites me with De Maupassant across both the Channel and the years.
18 By withholding beauty, artists aimed to punish a culture of destruction for its own sordidness.
通过扣留美,艺术家的目的是惩罚肮脏的破坏的文化。
19 How many crimes have been committed in the name of religion! with what baseness and sordidness has it not been sincerely connected!
20 It needed the contrast of the vision to make her see the sordidness and squalor—the grim reality—of that long dark room, with its chaos of noise, its nerve-destroying "speed."
1 污秽
dirty foul filthy lousy unclean profane untouchable impure dingy sordid grimy grubby squalid mangy scuzzy Augean swinish feculent scuzz hoggish soapless foully impurely soil filth squalor filthiness dirtiness beastliness impureness feculence grime begrime