Mope
[məʊp] or [mop]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed.
(verb.) move around slowly and aimlessly.
埃米莉錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To be dull and spiritless.
(v. t.) To make spiritless and stupid.
(n.) A dull, spiritless person.
編輯:威拉
同義詞及近義詞:
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.
黛朵錄入
解釋/意思:
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.
編輯:路易斯
例句/造句/用法:
- I am hurt that my daughter, seated in the--hum--lap of fortune, should mope and retire and proclaim herself unequal to her destiny. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Man, I cried, it will profit you nothing to mope thus. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Mrs. Gummidge, no longer moping in her especial corner, was busy preparing breakfast. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Why do you sit moping there, Annie? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- We were moping along down through this dreadful place, every man in the rear. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I say, David, to the young this is a world for action, and not for moping and droning in. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- She only sat in her room like a moping, dishevelled hawk, motionless, mindless. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The General and I were moping together tete-a-tete. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- No wonder it is moped, poor darling! 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- He moped after her departure from Holdernesse Hall, and it was for this reason that the Duke desired to send him to my establishment. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- I sometimes think I shall be moped wi' sorrow even in the City of God, if father is not there. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- He knew that he idled and moped. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I never moped: but I can see that Casaubon does, you know. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- She mopes about by herself, and don't mix in with the people. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- She's got most of the symptoms--is twittery and cross, doesn't eat, lies awake, and mopes in corners. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- But a man mopes, you know. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
錄入:希莉娅