down in the mouth

英 [daʊn ɪn ðə maʊθ]

美 [daʊn ɪn ðə maʊθ]

网络  沮丧; 垂头丧气

英英释义

adj

• filled with melancholy and despondency
  1. gloomy at the thought of what he had to face
  2. gloomy predictions
  3. a gloomy silence
  4. took a grim view of the economy
  5. the darkening mood
  6. lonely and blue in a strange city
  7. depressed by the loss of his job
  8. a dispirited and resigned expression on her face
  9. downcast after his defeat
  10. feeling discouraged and downhearted
  Synonym:gloomygrimbluedepresseddispiriteddown(p)downcastdownheartedlowlow-spirited

双语例句

• He looked very down in the mouth.
  他好象闷闷不乐的样子。
• The manager looked so down in the mouth that the staff knew something was seriously wrong.
  经理看来如此闷闷不乐，于是全体职员就知道事情必定不妙。
• Because he looks down in the mouth.
  因为他总是往嘴里看。
• An Application of Hanging Down in the Mouth of Tube in Midair to Install the Pour the Nearing Line of a Reservoir Construction and Setting of Ultra Deep Inverted Perpendicular in the Three Gorges Project Dam
  管口悬吊定位法安装倒垂线的应用三峡大坝特深倒垂孔倒垂线的施工安装
• What's the matter with you? You look very down in the mouth.
  你出什么事了？这么垂头丧气的？
• You look very down in the mouth today, iris.
  艾丽丝，今天你似乎很不高兴。
• Paul looks down in the mouth because she failed in the attempt.
  保罗因为尝试失败看起来很沮丧。
• He sat down again in front of the visitor but this time he held the visitor's hat in his mouth.
  的中文意思是：他再次坐在来访者面前，但是这次他把来访者的帽子放进了自己的嘴里。
• If this should happen, the speaker might feel down in the mouth.
  如果这种情况发生，说话者可能会感到沮丧。
• But the frog when he had received this promise, put his head into the water and sank down; and in a short while came swimming up again with the ball in his mouth, and threw it on the grass.
  过了一会儿，青蛙嘴里衔着金球，浮出了水面，把金球吐在草地上。