英语释义

1. exhibiting or characterized by meanness of spirit

2. feeling or showing a cruel desire to cause harm or pain

片语

mean-spirited jokes刻薄笑话

poor(Poor) （美）普尔（人名）

Clearly mean-spirited分明小气

base(Base) （英、美、爱尔兰）马濑（人名）

dirty变脏

You very mean-spirited你很小气

英汉例句

• The lesson, in a cold and mean-spirited age, is to remind us of a quiet human quality that is seldom adequately praised or celebrated: Grace.

  在一个冷漠、性情乖僻的时代，这一启示是要提醒我们注意一种不引人注目、很少受到人们足够的称赞或颂扬的人类品质：宽厚。

• There was a mean-spirited quality to Macfarlane「s Oscars that went beyond the usual awkward imbalance of celebrating and embarrassing a self-indulgent industry in the same show.

  麦克法兰主持的这届奥斯卡颁奖典礼带有一种刻薄的意味，这比往届的奥斯卡秀有过之而无不及。 往届颁奖典礼经常陷于既庆祝又嘲讽这个自我放纵的行业的尴尬境地。

• 「Mentioning parents can easily become mean-spirited attacks that interfere with the couple」s ability to address the underlying issues, 」 she told HuffPost.

  她对《赫芬顿邮报》说：「提及父母就很有可能变成刻薄的攻击，影响双方解决眼前问题的能力。」

• But there is a fast-approaching limit to our ability to borrow, steal, and print. Acknowledging this reality is not mean-spirited or cruel.

  但是我们正在快速逼近借钱，偷钱和印钱的能力上限，承认这个现实并不是什么吝啬和不人道。

• But not everything; and his uncle, who was prepared to care for him, had been refused a visa by mean-spirited British officialdom.

  但并非一切都和他的叔叔，谁愿意照顾他，被拒绝签证的卑鄙的英国官场。

• If you allow the mean-spirited opinions of others to make you waver in your purpose, you incur a double shame.

  如果你让别人的那些不怀好意的意见动摇你的目标，你就招致双倍的耻辱。

• Good looks can hide a selfish or mean-spirited personality.

  外表的好看可能隐藏着其自私和心胸狭窄的个性。