Was it for him to have the shame of buying her, or the meanness of punishing her? 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
I had been hitherto, all my life, a stranger to courts, for which I was unqualified by the meanness of my condition. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
Wealth, I said, and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. 柏拉图.理想国.
Bred in meanness and hard dealing, this had rescued him to be a man of honourable mind and open hand. 查尔斯·狄更斯.小杜丽.
Nay, the high priests of this worship had the man before them as a protest against their meanness. 查尔斯·狄更斯.小杜丽.
In the meanness of your nature you revile me with the meanness of my birth. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
A twelve months' voyage at sea would make of an ordinary man a very miracle of meanness. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
As a matter of course, they fawned upon me in my prosperity with the basest meanness. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
MY DEAR HARRIETTE, began young Berkeley, and then went on, with his usual, incorrigible duplicity and meanness. 哈里特·威尔逊.哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔.南方与北方.
They would find out that the blood in his veins was as free from the taint of meanness as theirs. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
It would be very unkind of you to suppose that I ever attributed any meanness to you, she began. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
If any service is very much underpaid, it is very apt to suffer by the meanness and incapacity of the greater part of those who are employed in it. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
Love can excuse anything except meanness; but meanness kills love, cripples even natural affection; without esteem true love cannot exist. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
If they imitate they should imitate, not any meanness or baseness, but the good only; for the mask which the actor wears is apt to become his face. 柏拉图.理想国.
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
I can't explain exactly, but I want to be above the little meannesses and follies and faults that spoil so many women. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特.小妇人.