参考词典中lowly的常规释义:
基本释义
- a. 地位低的,卑下的,谦卑的
ad. 位置低下的,低声地,谦逊地
词形变化
- 比较级:low·li·er, low·li·est名 词:low'li·ness
参考例句
- The saint had a lowly heart.
圣人有谦诚之心。 - He was not ashamed of his lowly origins.
他并不以自己出身低微为耻。
- The saint had a lowly heart.
英英解释
4个形容词解释
- low or inferior in station or quality
[同] humble, low, lowly, modest, small
[例]- a humble cottage
- a lowly parish priest
- a modest man of the people
- small beginnings
- inferior in rank or status
[同] inferior, junior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, petty, secondary, subaltern, subordinate
[例]- the junior faculty
- a lowly corporal
- petty officialdom
- a subordinate functionary
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- used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)
[同] humble, lowly, menial - of low birth or station (base' is archaic in this sense)
[同] humble, base, baseborn, lowly
[例]- baseborn wretches with dirty faces
- of humble (or lowly) birth
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