What can you tell us about lowly?

你能给我们讲讲 lowly 吗？

Rare is its lowliest seat, rare is its meanest of lives.

最低的座位是极其珍奇的，最生的生物也是世间少有的。

We have 'gobbling', 'lowly' and 'humble'.

我们有“大口吃”、“无足轻重的”和“谦虚的”。

But the word we're looking at is 'lowly'.

但我们今天要讲的单词是‘无足轻重的’。

No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.

再也不能把他们从床上唤起。

So, why are we calling it 'lowly'?

那么，为什么我们说它“无足轻重”呢？

Well, there's a clue in this word 'lowly' — low.

lowly 一词中有一个线索——low。

Mathilde was a charming girl married to a lowly clerk in the Ministry of Education.

玛蒂尔蒂是一个漂亮动人的女子，她将就和教育部的一个小科员结了婚。

His well-heeled Catholic mother-in-law may have disapproved of him, a lowly Protestant-born artist.

他的岳母是天主教徒，且富裕殷实，可能对他这个新教徒出身的卑微画家并不满意。

And the Victorians shuddered to think they were once such a lowly base animal.

维多利亚时代的人一想到自己曾经是如此低级的动物就不寒而栗。