Inferiority

(noun.) an inferior quality.

(noun.) the quality of being a competitive disadvantage.

(noun.) the state of being inferior.

整理:玛丽

• And where did you ever see a stupid, prosing poet, who did feel his own inferiority? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• He really believed, that were it not for the inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• It renders their superiority greater, or their inferiority less, than it otherwise would be. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connections? 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• How can Emma imagine she has any thing to learn herself, while Harriet is presenting such a delightful inferiority? 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• The ancient world, because of its metallurgical inferiority, could not use steam. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• That conduct alone sinks him in a gulf of immeasurable inferiority. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• While you speak, there can be no oblivion of inferiority--no encouragement to delusion: pain, privation, penury stamp your language. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• His face was covered with inarticulate anger and humiliation and sense of inferiority in strength. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• 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.
• Nor can the measure of his inferiority be told, except in a figure. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Her inferiority, whether of mind or situation, seemed little felt. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• But even in the case of an inferiority, we still desire a greater distance, in order to augment, still more the idea of ourself. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• She did unfeignedly and unequivocally regret the inferiority of her own playing and singing. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.

校对:米利森特