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

• A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth.
  牙医在工作的时候，是往嘴里瞧／垂头丧气。
• Why is Jane down in the mouth? She seems happy all the morning.
  简为什么那么垂头丧气？今天一上午她都很高兴嘛。
• 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。
• 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。
• I'm a bit down in the mouth today.
  我今天有点闷闷不乐的。
• 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
• He looked very down in the mouth.
  他好象闷闷不乐的样子。
• Because he looks down in the mouth.
  因为他总是往嘴里看。
• 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。
• 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？