| 词汇 | sordidness |
| 释义 | sordidness noun[ U ] uk /ˈsɔː.dɪd.nəs/ us /ˈsɔːr.dɪd.nəs/ sordidnessnoun[U] (DIRT)the quality of being dirty and unpleasant: 肮脏，卑微 He vividly describes the sordidness of middle-class poverty.他生动地描述了中产阶级贫穷的卑微。 the sordidness of factory smoke and hovels工厂烟雾和棚屋的肮脏 They looked up and down the river, with its amazing mixture of beauty and almost incredible sordidness. "We must have at least one good servant, or the daily sordidness would make you miserable," he said. The plans were a response to the dank, crowded sordidness of the Victorian slum. Dirty & untidy all over the placeidiom Augean besmeared bespattered bloodied look like something the cat brought/dragged inidiom look like/as if you've been dragged through a hedge backwardsidiom manky messily messy slovenly sluttish sluttishly soiled sordid unsterilized untidily untidy untrimmed unwashed sordidnessnoun[U] (IMMORALITY)the quality of being morally wrong and shocking: 不道德，不诚实，卑鄙 They express disgust at their own sordidness.他们对自己的不道德行为表示厌恶。 the sordidness of the love of cash爱财如命的卑鄙行为 See sordid Legalization would take much of the sordidness out of the business. the sordidness and corruption of party politics Morally wrong and evil abhorrent abhorrently amoral amorality anomie dissipated dissolute dissolutely dissoluteness enormity nefariously nefariousness no goodidiom no more Mr Nice Guyidiom non-ethical trespass turpitude unconscionable unconscionably unethical Examples of sordidnesssordidness Both in the reminiscences of the old residents and in the official discourse, gundilong was widely described in terms of its impoverishment, sordidness and maleficence. Who has not paused then to consider the sordidness of human affairs and the vanity of human wishes? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 By reflecting so much the sordidness of life, the broadcast is helping to mould public opinion; there is no question about that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have been living among ugliness, sordidness, and the effects of industrialism. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Who was it who brought up the subject of the sordidness of money and cash limits? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Everywhere we can see that towns are getting as large as they ought to be if they are not to become places of ugliness and sordidness. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is the sort of amenity one associates with pictures by artists who are determined to present the sordidness but reality of life in an industrial area. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That can only come about when society recognises the sordidness of its material standards and assesses value not for what is given but what is got. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The sordidness of the plot overpowered the credibility of the characters and the film was spurned by public and critics. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. That it's taking place at a time of war only magnifies its sordidness. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. His themes come from his personal interactions with its urban milieu - its sickness and sordidness, its violence and vulnerability and all that compounds its existential agony. 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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