1.悲惨绝望的;凄惨的terrible and without hope
abject poverty/misery/failure赤贫;凄惨;惨败
2.下贱的;卑躬屈节的;自卑的without any pride or respect for yourself
an abject apology低声下气的道歉
She dared to hope that an abject apology for breaking training, combined with Coach's pity and leniency, would put the matter to rest.
她本来大着胆子希望可以草草向教练道歉,抱歉打断了训练,然后带着教练的同情和好意,就了结这件事。
Thanks to years of spectacular growth, more people have been pulled from abject poverty in modern Asia than at any other time in history.
由于多年来经济增长强劲,现代亚洲把许多人从赤贫中拯救了出来,当前的脱贫人口是有史以来最多的。
She thought he would make an abject fool of himself, and for her sake, as well as his, decided to prevent him from standing.
她认为他会当众出丑,为他俩着想,她决定制止他当候选人。
But in an old man who has achieved whatever work it was in him to do, the fear of death is somewhat abject and ignoble .
但对于一个完成了他份内要做的所有工作的老人来说,怕死就有点儿卑鄙和不光彩了。
Witnessing the original flower-like daughter become so abject, her mother was more than heartbroken.
看着原本如花似玉的女儿变成半死不活的样子,母亲心痛不已。
The country, a declining communist industrial power when he took control, fell into abject poverty under his rule.
金正日掌权时,朝鲜是一个衰落之中的共产主义工业强国,但在他的治下却陷入赤贫。
Mr. Bob Sawyer glanced at His friend with a look of abject apprehension and once more cried "Come in"
鲍伯·索耶先生带着穷酸的恐惧神色看了他朋友一眼,又喊了一声“进来”。
He seems to have conceived an abject, unreasoned terror of the railroad.
他好象对铁路公司抱着一种意气消沉,不可理喻的恐惧心理。
As well as alleviating abject poverty, the scheme is credited with helping to put a floor under domestic consumption.
该计划不仅减轻了赤贫状况,也被认为有助于为国内消费构筑一道底线。
Tell your master, Nelly, that I never, in all my life, met with such an abject thing as she is.
告诉你的主人,耐莉,说我一辈子也没遇见过像她这样的一个下贱东西。
Even in her state of abject blackness, Charlotte was a dating optimist.
夏绿蒂即使在黑暗难堪情况里,也始终是个乐观的约会者
Moreover, it followed an abject apology squeezed out of America after a State Department spokesman had sniggered at Mr Qaddafi.
同时,欧盟作出极其卑下的道歉并承诺排挤美国,此前美国一名国务院发言人嘲弄卡扎菲先生。
She was not aware that the English habits of comfort attach an idea of abject misery to the idea of a barefooted traveller .
她不了解英国人出于爱舒服的习惯总把一个赤脚的旅行者看成最可怜的人。
And for Israel to gain nothing from its fight would be an abject humiliation.
并且对以色列来说,从战争中一无所获是奇耻大辱。
Tell your master, Nelly , that I never, in my life met with such an abject thing as she is.
告诉你的主人,耐莉,说我一辈子也没遇见过象她这样一个下贱的东西。
And then there are the reported terms of the deal, which amount to an abject surrender on the part of the president.
然后我们来说说据报道的协议条款,这些条款无异于总统方面可怜的投降。
The landlady wanted to complain, but she was in abject terror of the captain.
女房东想数说他们,但惧怕那大尉。
Militarily, strategically, politically and diplomatically it has been an abject failure on its own terms.
无论从军事上,战略上,政治上还是外交上来说,这场战争就其自身而言是彻底失败了。
and has achieved whatever work it was in him to do, the fear of death is somewhat abject and ignoble.
一切能做的都做了,如果怕死,就有点儿可怜又可鄙。
Generating the economic growth needed to lift people out of abject poverty means ushering corporations into putative paradise.
为了产生摆脱赤贫所需要的经济增长,意味着要带领公司进入公认的天堂。
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