So long as your grand folks wants to buy men and women, I'm as good as they is, said Haley; 'tan't any meaner sellin' on 'em, that 't is buyin'! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.
Bury me at sea, for I will have no meaner grave than the mighty ocean. 弗格斯·休姆.奇幻岛.
One instance of this kind came immediately under our notice, where a high-born girl had in early youth given her heart to one of meaner extraction. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
The falser he, the truer Joe; the meaner he, the nobler Joe. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
If, he said--if she takes no notice of me, if she shows I am not in her thoughts, I shall have a worse, a meaner opinion of her than ever. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
One great egotism had been swept aside--only to reveal a crowd of meaner egotists. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.