lowly

adj.

1. 地位低的；不重要的；无足轻重的
   low in status or importance

1. ADJ-GRADED 卑微的；低级的；无足轻重的
   If you describe someone or something as lowly, you mean that they are low in rank, status, or importance.
   1. ...lowly bureaucrats pretending to be senators...
      假称是参议员的低级官员
   2. He was irked by his lowly status.
      他为自己地位卑微而恼恨。

1. He was irked by his lowly status.
   他为自己地位卑微而恼恨。
2. The lowly are not necessarily stupid; the high-born not necessarily intelligent.
   卑贱者未必愚蠢，高贵者未必聪明。
3. Even the lowly cricket and ant cling to life, let alone a human being.
   蝼蚁尚且偷生，何况人乎？
4. Let us spare a thought for the lowly and often forgotten skunk.
   让我们用心想想不起眼的、常被遗忘的臭鼬吧。
5. All living creatures have lives and fates, even a bug as lowly as an ant.
   所有生物都有生命和命运，即使是如蚂蚁那么微小的虫子，也是一样。
6. As an excited member of the beginners'chorus line, I was aware of my lowly status.
   作为初级合唱队的一名成员，我很激动，我也意识到自己地位的低下。
7. She has great wisdom but is willing to do the lowly work of a cleaning lady.
   虽“智慧非凡”却能心甘情愿地做个身份卑微的保洁员。
8. Its not just the lowly assistant positions and small salaries we encounter.
   我们面对的不仅仅是卑微的助理职位和微薄的薪水。
9. Do you consider the lowly dandelion as nothing more than a weed?
   你有没有考虑过其实谦卑的蒲公英其实不只是野草？
10. These individuals behave in ways that quietly but effectively elevate the lowly and humble the arrogant.
    这些人的行动方式能安静但却有效地能提升那些地位低的人，卑下那些傲慢的人。
11. The gentleman bowed lowly before the lady.
    这位绅士谦恭地给女士鞠了一躬。
12. The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
    卑下的小虫爬上了一颗蜿蜒的星子。
13. I have stood in here today, the award taking away has represented love and dignity, elitist and lowly, but I have been really not to feel very happy.
    今天，我站在这里，拿走的奖代表了爱情和尊严，高贵和卑微，但我并不是感到很高兴。
14. In my impression, she speaks, always like reading lowly, also like to write article.
    在我的印象中她说话总是低低地，喜爱读书，也喜爱写文章。
15. He was a gentle, lowly, and unassuming man.
    他是个温和，谦卑，不摆架子的人。
16. A humble cottage; a lowly parish priest; a modest man of the people; small beginnings.
    一座简陋的小屋；谦逊的教区教士；谦逊的人；小的开始。
17. Women are doomed to suffering, loneliness and endurance from birth, they are the lowly.
    女人生下来就注定是受苦的，孤寂的，忍耐的，又是卑贱的。
18. If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better.
    如果能使人们认识到其自身天性的卑贱一面，则或许可以期望人们也能学会去更好地理解和爱自己的同伴。
19. His parents are country people with a lowly heart.
    他的父母是乡下人，心地谦逊。
20. No lowly shameless nauseating and absurd remarks of praise or flattery.
    没有卑贱无耻与荒谬言论肉麻的赞美或奉承。
21. He attributed his life and his ministry to that encounter with the lowly porter.
    他将自己的生命和事奉归功于那次和这个低下的搬运工人的相遇。
22. The lowly artisans understood the secret of art and the art of living.
    地位较低的工匠明白到艺术的奥秘和生活的艺术。
23. To stay on the ground after one falls reduces life into a lowly heap of dust.
    跌倒了，如果从此躺下，生命只会化作一堆卑微的尘土。
24. The lowly he sets on high, and those who mourn are lifted to safety.
    11将卑微的安置在高处，将哀痛的举到稳妥之地。
25. Make efficiency lowly and permit the mistakable phenomenon.
    造成了效率低下和容易出错的现象。
26. The lowly chameleon nonetheless has amazed countless generations with its special talents and skills.
    低阶的变色龙仍然以它特殊的才能和技巧让无数个世代的人感到惊异。
27. But when the eyes of the people are on the great sheikh, I am lowly.
    但是当老百姓的眼睛看着伟大的酋长的时候，我就贱了。
28. Though I am lowly and despised, I do not forget your precepts.
    我微小被人藐视。却不忘记你的训词。
29. Moreover, inform all of us lowly stockholders you are taking this stand – we will applaud you.
    另外，为此事出庭作证前，请通知我们这些地位卑微的股东们&我们要为你鼓掌。
30. We play worldly politics in the church and order our relationships by the lowly standards of this world.
    我们在教会里玩弄政治以及用世界的低水准来维持我们的关系。

  humble lowly modest【导航词义：谦卑的，卑微的】

  humble adj. 谦恭的，卑微的

〔辨析〕指态度谦逊的，也指社会地位等低微的，含对人低声下气之意。

  lowly adj. 卑微的，低下的

〔辨析〕指社会地位、职位等低下的，有时为幽默用法，可与 humble 换用。

  modest adj. 谦虚的，谦逊的

〔辨析〕指行为、态度等不自大、不虚荣、不傲慢的。

adj

1. of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)
   1. baseborn wretches with dirty faces
   2. of humble (or lowly) birth

   Synonym:    basebasebornhumble

2. inferior in rank or status
   1. the junior faculty
   2. a lowly corporal
   3. petty officialdom
   4. a subordinate functionary

   Synonym:    junior-gradelower-rankingpetty(a)secondarysubaltern

3. used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)

   Synonym:    humblemenial

4. low or inferior in station or quality
   1. a humble cottage
   2. a lowly parish priest
   3. a modest man of the people
   4. small beginnings

   Synonym:    humblelowmodestsmall