1. The sordidness of the place seems to have worked a spell on him: he is content here. 这个臭气熏天的地方对他产生了魔力，他对这儿很满意。
2. By withholding beauty, artists aimed to punish a culture of destruction for its own sordidness. 通过扣留美，艺术家的目的是惩罚肮脏的破坏的文化。
3. His admiration goes out to the characters who defy the sordidness of life and, risking all the dangers of retribution, live beyond good and evil, in magnificence. 他对这样的人物充满敬佩之情；他们蔑视肮脏的生涯，并冒着遭受报复的危险，摆脱善与恶的羁绊，堂堂皇皇地活下去。
4. Young men, while willing to concede the chaining sordidness of marriage, were hesitant about abandoning the organizations which they hoped would give them a career. 小伙子一方面愿意对婚姻带来的一连串可悲的后果让步，同时也舍不得放弃有希望给他们提供一份事业的组织机构。
5. And without — the frontier warfare; the yearning of a boy, cast ashore upon a desert of newness and ugliness and sordidness, for all that is chastened and old, and noble with traditions. 一场没有硝烟的美丑之战；一个被抛掷在陌生、丑陋、卑鄙的荒原上的孩子，对一切纯洁、古老、高尚的传统的渴望。
