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词汇 lowly
释义 lowly
adjective
uk /ˈləʊ.li/ us /ˈloʊ.li/
low in position and importance, or not respected: 低等的,卑微的
He took a lowly job in an insurance firm.他在保险公司得到了一个低级职位。
His first job in the hotel was as a lowly bellboy.他在酒店的第一份工作是当小门童。
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Of little or less importance

lowly | American Dictionary


lowly
adjective
us/ˈloʊ·li/
not having importance or rank:
In chess it is possible for the lowly pawn to become the most powerful piece on the board.

Examples of lowly


lowly
These latter three traits are either lowly heritable or too impractical or expensive to collect in commercial populations.
Even without compensation for injury caused by a rolling girder, the lowly laborer could thus be a proud member of the ' ' imperial ' ' corporate body.
At this point many readers of this journal may be wondering what all this lofty (lowly?) discourse has to do with medical ethics.
Relatively lowly figures did not have the resources to buy scores of cultivators.
This lowly status was reflected in, and exacerbated by, money.
In short, it is the lowly p-licensing status of codas and foot-internal onsets that marks them both out as favourable neutralisation sites.
It asked to grant the best among them some lowly positions in territorial administration, as a reward for services rendered.
The social ' catchment ' in the present study is both more local and generally much more lowly.
A million frightened teenagers or: a hundred and one cheap ways to make your movie more exciting - in praise of the lowly gimmick.
Scholars of enclosure may profit from more careful attention to the work of the lowly hedge.
Initially, life seems happy, but as these children mature, their wild, lowly and impure natures reassert themselves.
The dichotomy between ' good' and ' bad ' thus appears more pronounced, with its connotations of obedience, control and rationality, versus aggression, lowly libidinous behaviour, and irrationality.
The two noble females threw themselves mindlessly and madly into the arms of the two lowly but strong males.
And other bodies that exercise such power are those legislative, administrative, and judicial gatherings-however exalted or lowly they may be-that generate decisions which are backed by the state's coercive authority.
Feminine genius was to look quite different, and might include such lowly, practical talents as that of organization.
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