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abject

/ab-jekt, ab-jekt/US // ˈæb dʒɛkt, æbˈdʒɛkt //UK // (ˈæbdʒɛkt) //

卑微的,卑微的人,卑微,卑怯

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched: abject poverty.
    • : contemptible; despicable; base-spirited: an abject coward.
    • : shamelessly servile; slavish.
    • : Obsolete. cast aside.

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Examples

  • Director Naoki Yoshida has said that it was important to the company that a mainline “Final Fantasy” game isn’t regarded as an abject catastrophe.

  • I went within a month from having a nanny and living in a nice house and everything to just really abject poverty.

  • Our main message is that whoever wins, it will not be enough for him to fix the US’s abject failures in handling the pandemic and to take climate change seriously.

  • So this decision to open things back up, right before Labor Day, from people who do believe in collective action to contain this virus, is abject nonsense.

  • America’s abject failure to deal adequately with the biggest global health emergency in a century has prompted some experts to argue that the pandemic may serve as a geopolitical inflection point.

  • Those facts, Paul said, indicated that Chairman Mao was a tyrannical monster whose people lived “in abject slavery.”

  • The girls helped their mothers prepare a simple meal as the men smoked outside and reflected on their abject state.

  • But in any narrative, if the protagonist is going to be at the center of a sea of abject joy and triumph, someone has to lose.

  • Featuring headache-inducing black-and-red graphics, the Virtual Boy was an abject failure.

  • No, this brief delay must be a sign that the implementation of the Affordable Care Act is destined to result in abject failure.

  • A more abject, humiliated man than I stand at this hour in my own eyes never yet took his sins upon his soul.

  • The energetic, the daring, the high-spirited go, leaving the residue more abject and nerveless than ever.

  • In Scotland, even a beggar has none of those abject manners that denote his class elsewhere.

  • Meanwhile a sullen and abject melancholy took possession of his soul.

  • In the latter part of his reign, however, the Emperor passed under the dominion of the most abject superstition.