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

• Paul looks down in the mouth because she failed in the attempt.
  保罗因为尝试失败看起来很沮丧。
• 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。
• You look very down in the mouth today, iris.
  艾丽丝，今天你似乎很不高兴。
• I'm a bit down in the mouth today.
  我今天有点闷闷不乐的。
• 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？
• Ah Hsiang squeezed through from behind the forewomen, looking very down in the mouth.
  管车班的后面挤上了阿祥来，神气非常颓丧。
• Remnants of foods will break down in the mouth releasing the sugars and acids that cause damage and discoloration to teeth.
  牙齿上的残留物在口腔内会分解为糖和酸，腐蚀牙齿，形成牙渍。
• 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
• 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。