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

“下流，”他义愤地说，“卑。”

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

若时运不济，则像蓬草样苟且性命。

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

唉，可叹啊，军舰鸟那不光彩面就是去攻击只迟钝又胆小鸟——以“渔夫”之名著称燕鸥。

It was some foul parody, some infamous ignoble satire.

这是些下流模仿，些臭名昭著卑讽刺。

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

他那张丑陋脸因恐惧而变得丑陋。

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

卑里斯用箭射中了阿喀琉斯脚后跟， 杀死了他。

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

“有些人对知识有种无私望。这不是种不光彩望” 。

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

我们热衷于愤慨 那是种不光彩乐趣。

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

有时他们会做些卑事但他们不知道耻辱。

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

相反，个被最懦弱、最狡猾、最卑本能所激发人！

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

我熟悉你卑职业， 但你必须把你名声带到其他领域.

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：仅仅是肉体发烧：我声明，这不是灵魂痉挛。

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。

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

千把剑，现在在不光彩懒惰中生锈， 将从它们刀鞘中跳出， 为你荣誉与邪恶作战。

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

当我口袋里有钱时候，我没有经营过任何账单，在我看来，越是彻头彻尾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谎言中挣扎深渊，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绿头鸭不光彩命运。

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，多么卑虚荣，多么自私，多么空虚，多么卑！

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， 可能要求采取这步骤唯不光彩理由是不存在； 就是说，她好感度严重下降。

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，在于似乎为了别人忘记了自己；对许多人来说，这是社交上谎言，当个人利益表现出来时就被搁置旁；个贵族然后变得卑。