一直在調整方向，希望做出更適合大家的東西，對大家最有用的東西。所以以後選詞會跳過比較偏僻的、不常用的，選取或實用、或常考的詞彙，幫助大家擴充詞彙量，同時增加閱讀量。本文選取的abject在作文中常有用處，可以積累下來。
Why are people looking up abject?
Abject cast off its normally low status in lookups during the State of the Union address, and for a time was among our most searched-for words, after President Trump used it in making the claim that the policies of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro were bringing his citizens into “abject poverty.”
在國情諮文演講中，“abject”這個詞在搜索量上通常很低，但在特朗普總統聲稱委內瑞拉總統尼古拉斯·馬杜羅(Nicolas Maduro)的政策讓他的公民陷入“赤貧”之後，它一度成爲搜索量最高的詞之一。
What does abject mean?
Abject may be defined as “sunk to or existing in a low state or condition,” “cast down in spirit,” or “expressing or offered in a humble and often ingratiating spirit” (as in abject flattery).
Abject可用來描述“墮落或處於一種比較Low的地位或情形，表示‘不幸的，悽慘的,糟糕透頂的’”；或表示“可悲可鄙的”；或表示“諂媚的”
Citations
Those facts, Paul said, indicated that Chairman Mao was a tyrannical monster whose people lived “in abject slavery.”
— The Secret to Rand Paul’s Foreign Policy: His Father
保羅說道，這些事實都表明主席M是一個專政的暴君，他的人民生活在悽慘的奴役當中。
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