| 词汇 | abasement |
| 释义 | abasement noun[ U ] uk /əˈbeɪs.mənt/ us /əˈbeɪs.mənt/ the act of causing someone to seem as if they deserve no respect and have no power or importance: 羞辱，贬低 These children were abandoned to a life of degradation and abasement. He is obsessed with the abasement of those he perceives as his enemies. Related word abase See also self-abasement The politician has had to endure a year of abasement. They talk about the personal abasement that follows from sexual immorality. He said that the abasement of intellectuals to Soviet Communism disgusted him. They tried to change his mind by methods ranging from friendly persuasion to grovelling abasement. Humiliating and degrading abase be under a cloudidiom bring/take someone down a peg (or two)idiom bruise someone's egoidiom cut someone down to sizeidiom dishonour dishonourable dishonourably doghouse exhibition ignobly ignominious ignominiously ignominy in the doghouseidiom shoddily shoddiness shoddy stoop stoop to something Examples of abasementabasement This abasement is but the prelude to a further, more glorious transfiguration. We certainly do not want to see an abasement of the wages. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You persist, then, in continuing to employ these terms of servility and abasement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We should suffer certain moral abasement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Any failure in this central business involved a monstrous abasement, and against that our poor souls sought blindly for the most extravagant consolations. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The phrase is not a great claim; neither, however, is it an example of abasement before the shrine of antiquity. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Common elements in absurdist fiction include satire, dark humour, incongruity, the abasement of reason, and controversy regarding the philosophical condition of being nothing. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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