mean-spirited
英 ['mi:nsp'ɪrɪtɪd]
美 ['minsp'ɪrɪtɪd]
- adj. 气量小的；心胸狭窄的；卑鄙的
英语词源
- mean-spirited (adj.)
- also meanspirited, 1690s, from mean (adj.1) + -spirited. Ancient Greek had the same image in mikropsykhos.
权威例句
- 1. When life gets hard and you want to give up, remember that life is full of ups and downs, and without the downs, the ups would mean nothing.
- 当生活很艰难，你想要放弃的时候，请记住，生活充满了起起落落，如果没有低谷，那站在高处也失去了意义。
- 2. "What do you mean?" I asked, offended on Liddie's behalf.
- “你什么意思啊？”我问，替利迪感到愤愤不平。
- 3. This will mean more remand prisoners being held in police cells.
- 这将意味着更多候审犯人会被拘押在警局拘留室。
- 4. Take a hundred and twenty values and calculate the mean.
- 取120个值计算平均数。
- 5. But that doesn't mean this brand of politics is dead or dying.
- 但那并不意味着这种政治主张已经或正在消亡。