低微

He is known as a down-to-earth character — his father was a North Sea fisherman in Katwijk aan Zee, and his wife continued to work as a nurse at an old people's home even when her husband was one of the most famous footballers in Holland — and his performances reflect that.

谁都知道他出身低微-他的父亲是北海的一个渔夫，他的妻子在一个老年之家做护士，即使库伊特已经成为荷兰著名的球星后-库伊特的表现也反映了他毫不自负的态度，尽管如今他在利物浦应该可以随意发飙。

Fully qualified civil engineers of forty were happy to work as draughtsmen for a low wage.

完全具有开业资格的四十岁左右的工程师如能从事绘图员工作谋得低微的工资，就已喜出望外了。

At any other time and place, this lowly origin would have dictated his future, but his self-determination would assure his seat in his country's history and almost single-handedly created the prototype of the self-made American

200年前林肯出生于赤贫。在任何其它时候和地方，这种低微的出身应该已经决定了他的未来。但他自我的决心确立了他在美国历史上一席之地，并且独自造就了白手起家美国人的典型。

The departure of Alexander from India caused a power vacuum into which stepped Chandragupta Maurya, an adventurer from a low-caste family.

亚历山大的军队撤离印度之后，留下了一个权力的真空。出生低微的冒险家旃陀罗笈多步人了这个真空带。

The element of luxury with which the Persian carpet is associated today provides a marked contrast with its humble beginning among the nomadic tribes that at one time wandered the great expanse of Persia in search of their livelihood.

今天，波斯地毯中那雍容华贵的元素，和它最初伴随波斯民族为了生计四处游牧时而产生的低微粗陋特性形成了鲜明的对比。

I'm strongly against the death penalty — it's an eye for an eye.

我不赞成死刑——这是以牙还牙的报复行为。

And to get you the support you need, we're enlisting all elements of our national power: our diplomacy and development, our economic might and our moral suasion, so that you and the rest of our military do not bear the burden of our security alone.

并给你们所须的支援，我们正徵召国家所有各种的力量：我们的外交及发展，我们的经济力量与道德劝说，所以你们与其他军人不须要孤独地负起国家安全的责任。