Lowness

(noun.) a low or small degree of any quality (amount or force or temperature etc.); 'he took advantage of the lowness of interest rates'.

(noun.) the quality of being low; lacking height; 'he was suddenly aware of the lowness of the ceiling'.

校对:卢瑟

• Hence it proceeds, that we associate, in a manner, the idea of whatever is good with that of height, and evil with lowness. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Lowness goes first. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I desire Eunice, and no lowness or meanness of Justinian and Andros will keep me back. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• But this inferiority of quality is, perhaps, rather the effect of this lowness of price, than the cause of it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Muzzled I have been since that half a minute when I was betrayed into lowness, muzzled I am at the present time, muzzled I ever will be. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Do so; if your high heart, incapable of my infirmity of purpose, refuses to bend to the lowness of mine. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.

手打:利奥波德