Downcast
['daʊnkɑːst] or ['daʊnkæst]
解释:
(noun.) a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine.
(adj.) directed downward; 'a downcast glance' .
编辑:兰尼--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt.
(n.) Downcast or melancholy look.
(n.) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.
编辑:莉莉
同义词及近义词：
a. Sad, MELANCHOLY, dejected, dispirited, disheartened, despondent, discouraged, depressed, cast down, down-hearted, crest-fallen, chap-fallen, DOWN IN THE MOUTH.
艾伯特整理
例句:
- So, I walked a little further with Biddy, looking silently at her downcast eyes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- We might as well be in London as here, Captain Rawdon often said, with a downcast air. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- My Lady, looking at the downcast and blushing face, says smiling, Who is it? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- His fine and lovely eyes were now lighted up with indignation, now subdued to downcast sorrow, and quenched in infinite wretchedness. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- She again became utterly downcast; and Charley, seeing that she was not going to eat or drink any more, took away the tray. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- After looking a little at her downcast eyes as she walked beside me, I gave up that point. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- But supposing, sir,' said Twemlow, downcast, 'that it can't come? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- He only glared for a moment on the downcast face of Tom, and walked off. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- And yet it looked so like it, sir, I pleaded with a downcast heart. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- Eva looked downcast and aggrieved, and turned slowly. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- On the white lid and dark lashes of her downcast eye trembled all that is graceful in the sense of half-painful, half-pleasing shame. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- She submitted to walk slowly on, with downcast eyes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- She began to cut the pages of a novel, tranquilly studying her prey through downcast lashes while she organized a method of attack. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- As she stood behind him, leaning over his chair so lovingly, he looked with downcast eyes at the fire. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Cassy stood silent, while large, heavy tears dropped from her downcast eyes. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
编辑:玛杰里