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单词 abject
释义
abject
adjective
formal
uk
/ˈæb.dʒekt/us
/ˈæb.dʒekt/

abjectadjective(EXTREME)

abject misery, poverty, failure, etc.
thestateof beingextremelyunhappy,poor,unsuccessful, etc.:
极其苦恼（赤贫，极度恐怖等）
Theylivein abjectpoverty.他们过着赤贫的生活。
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abjectadjective(NOT PROUD)

showingnoprideorrespectfor yourself:
卑躬屈膝的；下贱的；奴性的
an abjectapology低声下气的道歉
He isalmostabject in hisrespectfor hisboss.他对老板毕恭毕敬，近乎低三下四。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Feeling sad and unhappy
  • a dog's lifeidiom
  • a long faceidiom
  • angsty
  • be cut upidiom
  • be down in the mouthidiom
  • be in a funkidiom
  • be in bitsidiom
  • distraught
  • distressed
  • dog
  • doleful
  • lovelorn
  • lovesick
  • low-spirited
  • lugubrious
  • wistful
  • wistfully
  • woe
  • woe is meidiom
  • woebegone
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abjectly
(Definition ofabjectfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

abject| American Dictionary

abject
adjective
us
/ˈæb·dʒekt/
extremeand withouthope:
Theylivein abjectpoverty.
Myexperimentwas an abjectfailure.
(Definition ofabjectfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofabject

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In this, theabjectis unlike the object, which stabilizes the subject in a reciprocal relationship of otherness.
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Fabulous wealth andabjectgloom, though apparently contradictory, were the two effects.
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By lunchtime on the following day, everything - including itsabjectside, the expulsion of the worthless, consumed commodity - has disappeared from view.
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Their financial situation suggests that they had started to move out ofabjectpoverty.
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In this sense evenabjectfailure can be turned to economic, political, and of course academic benefit.
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With theabjectfailure of its longstanding policy of exemplary libel prosecutions, the government simply gave up trying to control language.
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The subject is identified both with what it repudiates and what is repudiated: not subject butabject.
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Not only is the returned colonial "unhomely," he is frequentlyabjectin his destitution and disfigurement.
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The doubling and return of colonials - someabject, some not - is, then, a trope that expresses a number of underlying cultural anxieties.
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Consequently, women who violate physical norms of gender are imagined asabject, criminal subjects in a way that men are not.
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Without husbands most of the health retirees would live inabjectpoverty by any standard.
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As may be expected, the most dramatic accounts ofabjectpoverty are written by women who grew up in the late nineteenth century.
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He did this in the hope that in this ugly andabjectform, the book would seem contemptible in his eyes and his longing to read it would subside.
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Our interpretation is that the intensity of multi-dimensional poverty among rural-black households is so overwhelming that the social pension income is insufficient to lift its recipients out ofabjectpoverty.
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The kneeling postures called for in the disposizione create a similar effect: the body is briefly effaced,abject, in communion not with the audience but with a higher power.
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