单词 | glum |
释义 | glum /ɡlʌm/ adjective (comparative glummer, superlative glummest) SAD/UNHAPPYif someone is glum, they feel unhappy and do not talk a lot 闷闷不乐的;忧郁的 SYN gloomy Anna looked glum. 安娜看上去闷闷不乐。 After dinner, Kate lapsed into a glum silence. 吃过晚饭后,凯特就闷声不响的。 —glumly adverb She stared glumly at her plate. 她闷闷不乐地看着自己的盘子。 —glumness noun [uncountable]Examples from the Corpusglum• On the day of the funeral, the mood in the house was glum.• Indeed, he had seemed quite glum.• When Fabia went to bed that night she felt as glum as she had when she had got up.• The glum symptoms range from junk-bond distress to the destruction of wealth caused by falling property values and the thrifts debacle.• We turned our faces glum to reaffirm the forced nature of this trip.• Ball maintains the prerequisite glum visage, but he's clearly happy standing behind his bank of electronic equipment.Origin glum (1500-1600) glum “to look annoyed or bored” ((15-19 centuries)), from gloomglum adjectiveChinese if Corpus talk and not they is do feel unhappy glum, someone |
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