lowly
英 ['l??l?]
美['loli]
- adj. 卑賤的;地位低的;謙遜的
- adv. 謙遜地;位置低下地;低聲地
英英釋意
- 1. low or inferior in station or quality;
- "a humble cottage"
- "a lowly parish priest"
- "a modest man of the people"
- "small beginnings"
- 2. inferior in rank or status;
- "the junior faculty"
- "a lowly corporal"
- "petty officialdom"
- "a subordinate functionary"
- 3. used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)
- 4. of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense);
- "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"
- "of humble (or lowly) birth"