中英互译
gloom
英 /ɡluːm/美 /ɡluːm/
基本释义
- n.忧郁,绝望;昏暗,幽暗
- v.外观昏暗;显得萧条(或消沉)
复数glooms
第三人称单数glooms
现在分词glooming
过去式gloomed
过去分词gloomed
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词语例句
忧郁,绝望cn. (常sing.)
六级Why are people so full of gloom and doom?
人们的心里为什么满是悲观失望?
One could therefore present Napoleon in terms of his desire to impress or Churchill in terms of his lonely gloom.
因此,人们可以把拿破仑描述为渴望给人留下深刻印象的人,或者把丘吉尔描述为孤独忧郁的人。
昏暗,幽暗un.
The flashlights barely penetrated the gloom.
手电筒勉强照见那幽暗处。
外观昏暗vi.
The bamboo grove glooms along the roadside.
路边的竹林看起来阴森森的。
显得萧条(或消沉)vi.
We are now glooming about the budget.
我们正在为预算发愁。
- Why are people so full of gloom and doom?人们的心里为什么满是悲观失望?来自《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
- The flashlights barely penetrated the gloom.手电筒勉强照见那幽暗处。来自《牛津词典》
- "I wish I did," said Phil Jordan, relapsing into his usual gloom.“我要是做了就好了,”菲尔•乔丹说着,回到平时的忧郁中。来自《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
相关短语
- gloom and doomn. 厄运;对未来的悲观失望
- doom and gloom凄惨,前景不妙;无望
- cast a gloom over使…变得暗淡;使…蒙上阴影;使罩上悲伤的气氛
- Gloom Beacon幽冥灯塔
- Ruby Gloom露比的怪诞城;芝加哥蓝调
- gloom and doom厄运
- doom and gloom失望与不快;凄惨;和悲观;黯淡的前景
- June Gloom六月阴霾;唱片名
同义词
词义分布
阴暗
48.1%
昏暗
22.2%
幽暗
20.4%
郁闷
9.3%
英英释义
- n.a state of partial or total darkness
- n.a feeling of melancholy apprehension
- n.an atmosphere of depression and melancholy
词源
- gloom忧郁词源同gleam, glimmer, 微光,朦胧。引申义忧郁。
- gloomFrom Middle English *gloom, *glom, from Old English glōm (“gloaming, twilight, darkness”), from Proto-Germanic *glōmaz (“gleam, shimmer, sheen”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to gleam, shimmer, glow”). Cognate with Scots gloam (“twilight; faint light; dull gleam”), Norwegian glom (“transparent membrane”).