abject
['æbdʒekt]
a. 绝望助, 怜, 糟透, 卑鄙, 自卑

[] 卑鄙, 卑, 怜

1. The boy felt shamed of his abject poverty.
   孩贫而感羞。
2. He has achieved whatever work it was in him to do, the fear of death is somewhat abject and ignoble.
   完份做，死点卑鄙彩。
3. He is an abject liar.
   卑鄙谎者。

abject
[ adj ]

1. of the most contemptible kind

<adj.all>
abject cowardice
a low stunt to pull
a low-down sneak
his miserable treatment of his family
You miserable skunk!
a scummy rabble
a scurvy trick

2. most unfortunate or miserable

<adj.all>
the most abject slaves joined in the revolt
abject poverty

3. showing utter resignation or hopelessness

<adj.all>
abject surrender

4. showing humiliation or submissiveness

<adj.all>
an abject apology

Abject \Ab*ject"\ ([a^]b*j[e^]kt"), v. t. [From {Abject}, a.]
To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower;
to debase. [Obs.] --Donne.


Abject \Ab"ject\ ([a^]b"j[e^]kt), n.
A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a
castaway. [Obs.]

Shall these abjects, these victims, these outcasts,
know any thing of pleasure? --I. Taylor.


abject \ab"ject\ ([a^]b"j[e^]kt), a. [L. abjectus, p. p. of
abjicere to throw away; ab + jacere to throw. See {Jet} a
shooting forth.]
1. Cast down; low-lying. [Obs.]

From the safe shore their floating carcasses
And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown
Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood.
--Milton.

2. Degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject
posture, fortune, thoughts. ``Base and abject
flatterers.'' --Addison. ``An abject liar.'' --Macaulay.

And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. --Shak.

3. Sunk to a low condition; down in spirit or hope;
miserable; -- of persons.

4. Humiliating; degrading; wretched; -- of situations; as,
abject poverty.
[PJC]

Syn: Mean; groveling; cringing; mean-spirited; slavish;
ignoble; worthless; vile; beggarly; contemptible;
degraded.