1. This soul-poverty and sordidness are the elements inherent in the marriage institution. 这种精神贫穷和肮脏是内置于婚姻制度中的因素。
2. I have seen much inhumanity, cheating, corruption, sordidness and selfishness but I have not become cynical. 我看到过无数的残暴、欺诈、腐败、肮脏与自私,但我并未因此变得愤世嫉俗。
3. His admiration goes out to the characters who defy the sordidness of life and, risking all the dangers of retribution, live beyond good and evil, in magnificence. 他对这样的人物充满敬佩之情;他们蔑视肮脏的生涯,并冒着遭受报复的危险,摆脱善与恶的羁绊,堂堂皇皇地活下去。
英英解释
n.
1. sordid dirtiness
2. unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values