ignoble
ignoble 英 [ɪgˈnəʊbl] 美 [ɪgˈnoʊbl]
adj. 不光彩的；卑鄙的；卑贱的
- Ignoble means not noble, but for those of us that don’t live in feudal England and don’t worry about lords or peasants, ignoble just means base, or low, like that dude in Biology who’s always telling fart jokes.
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- adj. 不光彩的；卑鄙的；卑贱的
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1. This leads to a discussion about the objections to Utilitarianism: is it fair to give more weight to the values of a majority, even when the values of the majority may be ignoble or inhumane?
由此引起了功利主义的反对观点的讨论：即使当多数人的利益可能是卑鄙或不人道的时候也强调绝大多数人的利益，这样是否公平？
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2. Mr. Buffett has often been critical of buybacks motivated by, as he wrote in his 1999 letter to shareholders, an 'ignoble reason: to pump or support the stock price.'
巴菲特通常对出于一种目的的回购持批评态度，即他在1999年致股东的信中所写的“为了推高或支撑股价的不光彩理由”。
- ignoble (adj.) mid-15c., "of low birth;" 1590s as "not honorable, of low character;" from Middle French ignoble (14c.), from Latin ignobilis "unknown, undistinguished, obscure; of base birth, not noble," from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + gnobilis "well-known, famous, renowned, of superior birth," from PIE root *gno- "to know." Related: Ignobly; ignobility.
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