Mope
[məʊp] or [mop]
解释:
(verb.) be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed.
(verb.) move around slowly and aimlessly.
埃米莉录入--From WordNet
解释:
(v. i.) To be dull and spiritless.
(v. t.) To make spiritless and stupid.
(n.) A dull, spiritless person.
编辑:威拉
同义词及近义词:
v. n. [1]. Be sad, be gloomy, be dejected, look downcast, look blue, wear a long lace, laugh on the wrong side of the mouth.[2]. Be dull, be listless, be inattentive, be stupid, take no interest in any thing.
黛朵录入
解释:
v.i. to be silent and dispirited: to be dull or stupid.—v.t. to make spiritless.—n. a listless person a drone—also Mop′us.—adv. Mop′ingly.—adj. Mop′ish dull: spiritless.—adv. Mop′ishly in a mopish manner.—n. Mop′ishness.
编辑:路易斯
例句:
- I am hurt that my daughter, seated in the--hum--lap of fortune, should mope and retire and proclaim herself unequal to her destiny. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Man, I cried, it will profit you nothing to mope thus. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- Mrs. Gummidge, no longer moping in her especial corner, was busy preparing breakfast. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Why do you sit moping there, Annie? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- We were moping along down through this dreadful place, every man in the rear. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- I say, David, to the young this is a world for action, and not for moping and droning in. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- She only sat in her room like a moping, dishevelled hawk, motionless, mindless. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- The General and I were moping together tete-a-tete. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Why don't you come to us of an evening, instead of moping at home with that Captain Dobbin? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- No wonder it is moped, poor darling! 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- He moped after her departure from Holdernesse Hall, and it was for this reason that the Duke desired to send him to my establishment. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- I sometimes think I shall be moped wi' sorrow even in the City of God, if father is not there. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- He knew that he idled and moped. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- I never moped: but I can see that Casaubon does, you know. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- She mopes about by herself, and don't mix in with the people. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- She's got most of the symptoms--is twittery and cross, doesn't eat, lies awake, and mopes in corners. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- But a man mopes, you know. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
录入:希莉娅