他们对努力持否定态度，认为努力学习是能力低下的表现。

They had negative views of effort, believing that having to work hard was a sign of low ability.

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我发现很难摆脱社会地位低下的自卑感。

I found it difficult to shake off a sense of social inferiority.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

And so...what you're noticing is a fair mount of mergers and acquisitions, meaning less efficeint businesses are collapsing into biger businesses.

所以你会看到,企业间大量的,兼并，这意味着,工作效率低下的企业,会垮台，被更大的企业吞并。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

In 1992, a study on literacy of United States a particular illiteracy was associated with law incompetence, with poverty, with welfare, with incarceration.

992年，一项关于美国人文化素养的研究,文化素养低下与,低下的生活水平，贫困和社会福利，以及监禁有一定关系。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

He returns us to the lowly perspective that Galileo had when he set up his telescope in that other valley, Valdarno, and it's this lowly vantage point that's beautiful in part because it's a fallen perspective, not in spite of the fact that it's a fallen perspective.

他让我们回到伽利略和他在另一个村庄,瓦尔达诺设置望远镜的较低的层面，这个低下的认为这个层面存在美感的观点,是因为这是一个堕落的观点，而不是因为堕落的事实。

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