单词 | lowly |
释义 | low·ly I. 1. < bowed lowly before her > 2. < affected rams are usually lowly fertile — Fertility of Sheep > < rare records … lowly priced — advt > 3. II. 1. a. < taught him to be lowly and reverent > b. < a man of lowly birth > < they were too lowly to associate with me — G.B.Shaw > c. < a lowly society of the present day — Notes & Queries on Anthropology > < accepted the possibility that lowly … animals might be generated spontaneously — S.F.Mason > d. < a lowly instructor in government — Fred Rodell > < a lowly parish priest > e. < need not trouble himself with the lowly business of reading and writing if he had a good scribe — G.B.Jeffery > < made from a lowly railroad spike — R-Mor-Plate > f. < using great words on the lowlier subject, contrives to make them appropriate — A.T.Quiller-Couch > 2. < the starvation need of air and light allotted to the lowly growths — William Beebe > Synonyms: see humble |
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