Isn't that kind of cowardly? Oh, yeah. It's beyond contemptible.

不觉得这有点像懦夫的行为吗？哦，是的，但总比被欺骗好吧？

In other words, Jane Austen doesn't mock snobbery as the behavior of ghastly and contemptible people.

说，珍奥斯汀并不打算嘲讽势利眼， 认为这种行为只会发生在阴险卑鄙的人身上。

I could forgive you if you betrayed me with anyone remotely admirable, but you chose the most contemptible man I have ever known.

如果红杏出墙的对象是其他哪怕是有一点正直的人，我都能原谅却选择了我见过最不堪的男人。

When I first got away from home I thought this place was not worth troubling about. I thought our life here was contemptible.

我当初离开家时，觉得这地方根本不值得花心思。我认为我们这儿的生活太微不足道了。

To make up for what they lack in knowledge and thoroughness, they often resort to trick and fraud, and become not merely contemptible but criminal.

因为缺乏知识，做事欠考虑，他们把戏欺骗别人，因此他们不但可憎甚至会滑向犯罪。

Oh yeah? I had to smile to myself. After all, I had already fallen in love with the savage brat, the parents were contemptible to me.

是吗？我只好暗自笑了笑。毕竟我已经喜欢上了这个野蛮的小东西，但却看不起这对父母。

It came in as a kind of a rude word really, a mocking word for somebody seen as socially inadequate, or somehow rather unfashionable, or contemptible in some way.

这个词可不是个礼貌用语。 它嘲笑社交白痴和土包子，在某种程度上带有蔑视。

Then you will know that I the Lord have heard all the contemptible things you have said against the mountains of Israel. You said, " They have been laid waste and have been given over to us to devour" .

也必知道我耶和华听见了的一切毁谤，就是攻击以色列山的。说：‘这些山荒凉，是归我们吞灭的。’