Gloom
[gluːm] or [ɡlum]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a feeling of melancholy apprehension.
(noun.) a state of partial or total darkness; 'he struck a match to dispel the gloom'.
(noun.) an atmosphere of depression and melancholy; 'gloom pervaded the office'.
伯特伦編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.
(n.) A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.
(n.) Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
(n.) In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.
(v. i.) To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
(v. i.) To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight.
(v. t.) To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
(v. t.) To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
校對:伦道夫
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Obscurity, darkness, dimness, gloominess, cloud.[2]. Sadness, dejection, depression, despondency, melancholy, heaviness of mind, low spirits.
伊米莉亚整理
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Gloaming, twilight, obscurity, shadow, obscuration, dullness, cloudiness,cloud, dejection, sadness
ANT:Light, radiance, clearness, brightness, daylight
手打:默文
解釋/意思:
n. partial darkness: cloudiness: heaviness of mind sadness: hopelessness: sullenness.—v.i. to be sullen or dejected: to be cloudy or obscure.—v.t. to fill with gloom.—adv. Gloom′ily.—n. Gloom′iness.—p.adj. Gloom′ing (Shak.) shining obscurely.—n. twilight: gloaming.—adj. Gloom′y dim or obscure: dimly lighted: sad melancholy.
整理:辛克莱
例句/造句/用法:
- Three yellow squares of light shone above us in the gathering gloom. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- When Mr. Hale came in, Margaret went out, oppressed with gloom, and seeing no promise of brightness on any side of the horizon. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- The light of high day surrounded me; not, indeed, a warm, summer light, but the leaden gloom of raw and blustering autumn. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- From the first I was tempted to make an exception to this rule of avoidance: the seclusion, the very gloom of the walk attracted me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Far back in the obscuring gloom of a prehistoric antiquity, man wore probably only the hirsute covering which nature gave him. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- A smile broke through the gloom of Lydgate's face. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- For days on end, when the mood was on him, he has been sunk in the deepest gloom. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- He kissed Amy as she started up to meet him, nodded to Fanny, nodded to his father, gloomed on the visitor without further recognition, and sat down. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- At this remark the face of Mr Dorrit gloomed considerably. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Always,' replied Lammle, glooming considerably under his late treatment. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
手打:肖恩