热词解析(4) — Abject

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Why are people looking up abject?

Abject cast off its normally low status in lookups during the State of the Union address, and for a time was among our most searched-for words, after President Trump used it in making the claim that the policies of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro were bringing his citizens into “abject poverty.”
在国情咨文演讲中，“abject”这个词在搜索量上通常很低，但在特朗普总统声称委内瑞拉总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗(Nicolas Maduro)的政策让他的公民陷入“赤贫”之后，它一度成为搜索量最高的词之一。

Abject Poverty

What does abject mean?

Abject may be defined as “sunk to or existing in a low state or condition,” “cast down in spirit,” or “expressing or offered in a humble and often ingratiating spirit” (as in abject flattery).
Abject可用来描述“堕落或处于一种比较Low的地位或情形，表示‘不幸的，凄惨的,糟糕透顶的’”；或表示“可悲可鄙的”；或表示“谄媚的”

Citations

Those facts, Paul said, indicated that Chairman Mao was a tyrannical monster whose people lived “in abject slavery.”

— The Secret to Rand Paul’s Foreign Policy: His Father

保罗说道，这些事实都表明主席M是一个专政的暴君，他的人民生活在凄惨的奴役当中。

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