(adj.) meanly avaricious and mercenary; 'sordid avarice'; 'sordid material interests' .
克莉丝汀编辑
双语例句
This is no sordid suit. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
Sordid in my grief, sordid in my love, sordid in my miserable escape from the darker side of both, oh see the ruin I am, and hate me, shun me! 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.
Is THAT spiritual, her bullying, her conceit, her sordid materialism? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
And he is worth--not to say his sordid expenses--but thrice his weight in gold, said Richard. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
But if I had mine, glancing at the cousins, there should be no brambles of sordid realities in such a path as that. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the things it looks upon to bless. 查尔斯·狄更斯.艰难时事.
There is no production in us now, only sordid and foul mechanicalness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
She's a fishwife, a fishwife, she is such a materialiSt. And all so sordid. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
Amidst this sordid scene, sat a man with his clenched hands resting on his knees, and his eyes bent on the ground. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
The savage is sordid. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
And she loathed it, the sordid, too-familiar place! 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
I could not bear to return to the sordid village, where, besides, no prospect of aid was visible. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
One could not bear any more of this shame of sordid routine and mechanical nullity. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
I saw some, with naturally elevated tendencies and good feelings, kept down amongst sordid privations and harassing griefs. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
I mention it now, only as a corroboration (though I hope it may be needless) of my being free from the sordid design attributed to me. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
A gloomy house the Bower, with sordid signs on it of having been, through its long existence as Harmony Jail, in miserly holding. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
Now one was not a child, and one knew that the soul was a prisoner within this sordid vast edifice of life, and there was no escape, save in death. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
What wonder that the sordid lights of work-day prudence should pale before the glory of a hope like theirs in the full splendor of its fruition? 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
She watched the sordid streets of the town go by beneath her, as if she were a spirit disconnected from the material universe. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
You think me horribly sordid, don't you? 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
Everything is a ghoulish replica of the real world, a replica, a ghoul, all soiled, everything sordid. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
They were hideous and sordid, during his childhood they had been sores in his consciousness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
A magnificent feast delights us, and a sordid one displeases. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
Yet forward she went, through the whole sordid gamut of pettiness, the long amorphous, gritty street. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
Will she forget what she knows of my poor ambition, my sordid schemes? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯回忆录.
In his own tim e he was rather reproached for what was c onsidered an undignified and sordid familiarity with observed facts. 李贝.西洋科学史.
I never saw anything that did not proclaim the lady--nothing sordid, nothing soiled. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
How sordid life was, how it was a terrible shame to the soul, to live now! 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
To a man of my sentiments, however, the subject is deplorably sordid. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.