baseness

1. Feeling that all extremes meet, and that, if one is not on one's guard, lowered fortunes may lead to baseness of soul, he kept a jealous watch on his pride.
   他感到人间事物是一一相承，物质的缺乏可以导致灵魂的堕落，于是便疾恶如仇捍卫着自己的自尊心。
2. They are all a hotchpotch of greatness and littleness, of virtue and vice, of nobility and baseness.
   他们皆是伟大与渺小，善良与邪恶，高尚与低俗的混合体。
3. I felt my own baseness, as I also felt the goodness of this ugly rock.
   我感到自己的可耻，也感到了丑石的伟大；
4. Ruan Ming believed in his radical ideas and used them as an excuse for all his baseness.
   阮明相信自己的思想，以思想的激烈原谅自己一切的恶劣行为。
5. Shelley never pardoned baseness of this sort.
   谢莉绝不会原谅这种卑鄙的行为。
6. In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
   世在卑贱的海洋里，我们游得越深，沉没得越快。
7. He had told more lies in his time, and undergone more baseness of stratagem in order to stave off a small debt.
   他一生说的谎，耍的卑鄙手段都不算少，但这一切只是为了躲一笔小小的债。
8. It is not baseness but love.
   东宫西宫：这不是贱，这是爱情。
9. And yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness, far inferior to other parts.
   不过勇气是无知与卑贱的产儿，远不如其他条件重要。
10. Fine feathers and scarlet cloaks would not be excuses for baseness and deception.
    漂亮的帽缨，鲜红的军服也就不能成为开脱卑鄙行径和欺骗手段的工具了。

noun

1. unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values

   Synonym:    sordidnesscontemptibilitydespicablenessdespicability