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Перевод: lowly

[прилагательное]
занимающий низкое положение; занимающий скромное положение; скромный; непритязательный;
[наречие]
скромно

Тезаурус:

1. Perhaps still smarting from his lowly position and lack of respect in Yenan 30 years before, he publicly condemned Deng as arrogant and dangerously ambitious: "To discuss with Deng Xiaoping as equals is more difficult than to put a ladder against heaven."
2. The audiences at the first performances of The Creation in Vienna in the late 1790s were entranced by Haydn's musical depictions of every living creature from the mighty eagle to the lowly worm.
3. The lowly "polis", with little or no power in the system, deplores this situation and complains of its escalation, while the detectives moan about the incompetence of the uniform "wollies" who never get close enough to their prisoners to extract their own "coughs" or admissions and who fail to understand that the system largely depends on the ability of the department to manipulate a statistical norm in detected crimes.
4. If they are stallions, they are least likely to find mates and reproduce their less aggressive genes; and if they are mares, due to their lowly position, they and their foals will get least to eat, and they also will be least likely to survive.
5. The comparative comfort of a home match with lowly Nottingham a fortnight today to complete the league season is of no consequence for the moment.
6. Kerry Packer has launched a complex, lowly valued and hostile bid for Bond's media interests whilst efforts to pass on stakes in British Satellite Broadcasting and Airship Industries have so far failed.
7. From the point of view of politics, the meaning is that in exceptional times, one does well to join with the lowly, for this affords the possibility of renewal.
8. But the tasks of reserve police vary across sections and stations, and in some rural areas there is no difference in their responsibilities compared to regular policemen, knowledge of which makes part-time reserve police in Easton very sensitive to their lowly position within the police bureaucracy.
9. This reaction attributed evolution to pure chance and held the opinion that complex animals could not be considered better adapted to their environments than more lowly forms: all represented degrees of specialization.
10. Senior officers were so removed from the lowly constable that they were practically out of sight.
11. Is life the countervailing force, now pitiably weak but always improving from its lowly origins, which may lead eventually to a future beyond even the imagination of men like Boltzmann?
12. In the same list of honours in which one of the firemen who broke his ribs fighting the disastrous fire at Bradford football stadium received the lowly BEM, Gordon Reece, an advertising executive who helped run Margaret Thatcher's election campaign, was given a knighthood.
13. The answer lies in the flexible genes of the lowly microorganism John Postgate