when someone or something is not good or not as good as someone or something else 低等;劣等OPP superiority
moral inferiority
道德低下
sense/feeling of inferiority
He had a deep-rooted feeling of inferiority.
他有一种根深蒂固的自卑感。
Examples from the Corpus
sense/feeling of inferiority• Conversely, shots taken from a low angleimpart a feeling of inferiority or weakness.• A sense of inferiorityaffects the motivation of a child to learn.• A fundamentaltenet of Adler's theory is that human actions are motivated by feelings of inferiority of some kind.• A sense of boredom may cause feelings of inferiority in the sufferer.• They came from his emergingfeelings of inferiority and superiority in an environment that had no patience for either.• Coupled with envy was a terriblesense of inferiority.• The feeling of inferiority is defensively turned into a feeling of superiority.
ADJECTIVE | INFERIORITY + NOUN | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤moral, racial, social道德品質卑劣;種族低劣;社會地位低下◇the myth of racial inferiority種族低劣的謬見➤intellectual智力的低下INFERIORITY + NOUN➤complex自卑情結◇He had an inferiority complex about his looks.他對自己的相貌感到自卑。PREPOSITION➤inferiority to不如⋯◇She accepted her inferiority to her rivals.她接受了自己不如對手的現實。PHRASES➤a feeling of inferiority, a sense of inferiority自卑感