" It was base, " he said indignantly, " it was ignoble."

“下流，”他义愤地说，“卑鄙。”

And if his life is unfortunate, he will drag out an ignoble existence like a grass.

若运不济，则像蓬草一样苟且性命。

His ignoble resource, alas! is to attack a dull and timorous bird, the noddy, famous as a fisher.

唉，可叹啊，军舰鸟那不光彩的一面就是去攻击一只迟钝又胆小的鸟——以“渔夫”之名著称的燕鸥。

It was some foul parody, some infamous ignoble satire.

这是一些下流的模仿，一些臭名昭著的卑鄙讽刺。

His ignoble face had become hideous by reason of his terror.

他那张丑陋的脸因恐惧而变得丑陋。

The ignoble Paris killed Achilles by shooting an arrow in his heel.

卑鄙的帕里斯用箭射中了阿喀琉斯的脚， 死了他。

" Some people have a disinterested desire for knowledge. It's not an ignoble desire" .

“有些人对知识有一种无私的望。这不是一种不光彩的望” 。

We love to be offended. It's one of the ignoble pleasures.

我们热衷于愤慨 那是一种不光彩的乐趣。

Sometimes they would do some ignoble things but they had no idea of ignominy.

有他们会做一些卑鄙的事但他们一点也不知道耻辱。

On the contrary, one inspired by the most cowardly, the most crafty, the most ignoble of instincts!

相反，一个被最懦弱、最狡猾、最卑鄙的本能所激发的人！

I am familiar with your ignoble profession, but you must take your reputed talents to some other field.

我熟悉你卑鄙的职业， 但你必须把你的名声带到其他领域.

I know it is ignoble: a mere fever of the flesh: not, I declare, the convulsion of the soul.

我知道这是不光彩的：仅仅是肉体的发烧：我声明，这不是灵魂的痉挛。

The fire was not dissipated yet, and she thought it was ignoble in her husband not to apologize to her.

火还没有散， 她觉得丈夫不向她道歉是不礼貌的。

A thousand swords, now rusting in ignoble sloth, shall leap from their scabbards to do battle for your honor against wrong.

一千把剑，现在在不光彩的懒惰中生锈， 将从它们的刀鞘中跳出， 为你的荣誉与邪恶作战。

I had run no bills when I had money in my pocket, and the more downright dishonesty seemed to me the less ignoble.

当我口袋里有钱的候，我没有经营过任何账单，在我看来，越是彻头彻尾的不诚实就越是不那么不光彩。

I should not have understood the abyss of misfortune and ignoble falsehood in which I floundered about, feeling that something was not right.

我不应该理解我在不幸和卑鄙的谎言中挣扎的深渊，感到有些不对劲。

Strong and ready hands turned him about and conveyed him in silence and haste to the sidewalk and averted the ignoble fate of the menaced mallard.

有力而准备好的双手把他转了过来， 默默地、匆忙地将他送到了人行道上， 避免了这只受到威胁的绿头鸭的不光彩命运。

Look at her life--how fair it was, and tending ever upward; and look at his own--how frivolous, how charged with mean vanities, how selfish, how empty, how ignoble!

看看她的生活——多么公平，而且越来越向上；看看他自己——多么轻浮，多么卑鄙虚荣，多么自私，多么空虚，多么卑鄙！

Politeness, dear, consists in seeming to forget ourselves for others; with many it is social cant, laid aside when personal self-interest shows its cloven-foot; a noble then becomes ignoble.

礼貌，亲爱的，在于似乎为了别人忘记了自己；对许多人来说，这是社交上的谎言，当个人利益表现出来就被搁置一旁；一个贵族然变得卑鄙。

It may unhesitatingly be affirmed that the only ignoble reason which might have dictated such a step was non-existent; that is to say, a serious decline in her affection.

可以毫不犹豫地断言， 可能要求采取这一步骤的唯一不光彩的理由是不存在的； 也就是说，她的好感度严重下降。