1·Professor Levine paints a sordid picture: young police officers are funneled into low-income black and Hispanic neighborhoods where they are encouraged to aggressively stop and frisk young men.
莱文教授在我们面前展示了如下一幅不为认知肮脏的画面：年轻的美国警官们沿着曲折的小巷，悄无声息地进入美国各个低收入的黑人和西班牙族裔街区，在这些地方，警方鼓励甚至纵容年轻刚入道的警官们随意拦截搜查在这附近出现的年轻人。
2·Today he is in a sordid café.
今天他正坐在肮脏的咖啡馆里。
3·British Prime Minister David Cameron said Wednesday that an investigation into the sordid mess was coming.
英国首相大卫·卡梅伦本周三表示，即将对这起肮脏的丑闻展开调查。
4·Who knows what kind of sordid life this guy has?
谁知道那家伙过的是什么样的肮脏生活呢？
5·We're doing a series on the ten most sordid social welfare cases.
我们正在做一系列关于十大最肮脏的社会福利案件。
1·I want no part of this sordid business.
我决不卷入这一卑鄙勾当。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·He sat with his head buried in his hands as his sordid double life was revealed.
当他卑鄙的两面生活被揭发时，他双手掩面地坐着。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3·He has sordid motives on us.
他对我们有卑鄙的动机。
4·He probably had his own sordid reasons for behaving like that.
他那样做大概也有其卑鄙的理由。
5·This was the first in the sordid series of mistakes which was to cause her to fall so low .
这是她所犯下的一连串卑鄙过失中的第一个，它将使她堕落到如此卑劣的境地。