If we are honest with ourselves, we admit that this life is empty and meaningless.

I feel that my life is completely meaningless.

我觉得我的人生毫无意义.

Enough. You prattle on like a child reciting bits of meaningless trivialities.

够了. 你就像个小孩在背诵无聊的琐事.

Don't think too meanly of yourself.

不要太自卑.

I always look at your sentences, but you don't give meanly answer!

我一直都在等待着你的坦白, 但你却 总 不给我答案.

They lived meanly and without ostentation.

他们生活很节俭,一点也不摆阔.

There it was all spiritual. Here it was all material , and meanly material.

那儿一切都那么高雅,这儿却只有庸俗, 低级的庸俗.

Her house meanly furnished, and she was not in such repute for her practice as before.

她家里的陈设也简陋了, 她营业的名声也不像以前那么好了.

He is meanly dressed.

他穿着寒酸.

" Good men ever interpret themselves too meanly,'said the physician.

“ 好心的人从来都是把自己说得十分卑微的, ” 医生说.

He thought it was best to laugh at him rather than to hit him meanly.

他认为,与其狠狠地攻击他,还不如嘲笑他几句更好.

Her character was compounded in equal parts of meanness and generosity.

她的为人慷慨吝啬参半.

He stooped to such meanness.

他堕落得这般卑鄙.

A capitalist will not stick at any meanness in making money.

只要能赚钱,资本家什么卑鄙的勾当都干得出来.

This man is very mean and famous for his meanness.

这人很吝啬,也因吝啬而出名.

We call meanness nobility and hatred honor.

我们善恶不分,是非不明.

He will not stick at any meanness in making-money.

只要能赚钱他什么卑鄙的勾当都能干得出来.

She would not see the ugly disorder and meanness of the world he dwelt in.

也许她就会无视他所生活的世界是何等的紊乱和寒伧.

You'll never cure him of his meanness; it's in his bones.

你决不可能治好他那小气的毛病, 他本性就是如此.

Slow as mail is, it is the cheapest means of communication.

尽管慢, 但这是最便宜的通信方式.

The written word is my most effective means of communication.

写作对我来说就是最有效的交流方式.