"Rather than a case of abject failure, Rapu Nui is an unlikely story of success," they claim.
他们声称：“拉普努伊不是一个悲惨的失败案例，而是一个不太可能成功的故事。”
Born in rude and abject poverty, he never had any education, except what he gave himself, till he was approaching manhood.
生于粗陋和赤贫之中，在接近成年之前，除了自学之外，他从未受过任何教育。
Finding something to appreciate, he said, can save us from absolute despair—in a way that abject complaining cannot.
找到一些仍然值得感激的事会帮助我们远离彻底的绝望——这事可不能靠抱怨完成。
Even the offer of us dollars in the midst of abject poverty produced only shrugs, because there was simply no food to buy.
在赤贫的环境中，就连美元也只能换来束手无策的表情，原因很简单，那里买不到任何食物。
过着极穷困的生活。
过着极悲惨的生活。
The old couple lived in abject poverty.
这对老夫妇生活赤贫。
I no longer wanted to live in abject poverty.
我再也不想过穷困潦倒的生活。
The fear of death is somewhat abject and ignoble.
怕死就未免有些可鄙、有些不光彩了。
He looked back at the abject, silent girl and repeated his question.
他转过头看着这个噤若寒蝉的女孩，又重复了一遍他的问题。
A third of the total population of the world are living in abject poverty.
全世界有三分之一的人口过着极其贫困的生活。
She only thought how best to make her visit appear to eustacia not abject but wise.
她只想，怎么才是最好的方法，能让游苔莎认为她这次的访问令人可佩，而不令人可鄙。
They were living in such abject poverty that they could not even afford the bare necessities.
他们一贫如洗，连最起码的生活必需品都买不起。
Their very attitudes were abject, and the expression of their countenances distrustful, surprised, and startled.
他们态度卑微，面部带有怀疑、吃惊、恐惧的表情。
I know that plain men are seldom failures; their very plainness saves them from the alarming picturesqueness of the abject failure.
我知道平凡人很少失败，正是平凡让他们免于陷入可悲的失败所带来的令人惶恐的境况。
Roma finished the match with ten men after Luigi Sartor was sent off and Delneri apologized for the abject performance from his players.
萨托尔被罚下，罗马是十个人踢完了比赛，德尔·内里现在不得不为队员们的拙劣表现而道歉。
Globalization has clearly been responsible for lifting at least 2 billion people from abject poverty to extremely low levels of middle class.
全球化进程很显明地使得至少20亿人从极端贫困上升到中产阶级的最低端水平。
What Mr Brown needs is to find a tone between adamantine denial and abject prostration, one that bolsters his authority rather than forfeiting it.
现在，布朗就是要在矢口否认和完全屈服中间找到一个恰当的语气，该语气非但不会降低其威信，反而会让其增加。
Southampton need to resort to the form that brought them victory over Liverpool in their last home league game, rather than their abject display at Birmingham in another away defeat.
南安普敦队在最近的一场主场联赛中击败了强大的利物浦队。目前的南安普敦队急需找回战胜利物浦队时的神勇状态，摆脱客场落败伯明翰队的阴影，否则他们将很难取得好的成绩。
THE abject performance of the rating agencies in the run up to what Australians call the Great Financial Crisis has not diminished the attention that markets pay to their pronouncements.
尽管评级机构在澳大利亚人所谓的“重大金融危机”前夕表现糟糕，市场对评级数据的关注丝毫未减。
The film attempts to understand the abject fear and courageous decisions of people who transformed from a random assembly of disconnected strangers into Allies confronting an unthinkable situation.
该片试图去领会人们的那种极度恐惧以及那些英勇做出的决定，而这些人们在联合起来应对突如其来的局面之前就是一群随机凑在一起的毫无联系的陌生人。
The film attempts to understand the abject fear and courageous decisions of people who transformed from a random assembly of disconnected strangers into Allies confronting an unthinkable situation.
该片试图去领会人们的那种极度恐惧以及那些英勇做出的决定，而这些人们在联合起来应对突如其来的局面之前就是一群随机凑在一起的毫无联系的陌生人。
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