sullen
['sʌlən]
adj. 愠怒的, 闷闷不乐的, 阴沉的
例句与用法:
Susan was sullen in the morning because she had not slept well.
苏珊今天早上郁闷不乐,因为昨晚没睡好。
A young woman, of sullen aspect, was sitting alone on the bench.
一个面色忧郁的年轻女人独自坐在长凳上。
Eight metallic strokes shiver the morning air and from a nearby hill a stricken figure rivets involuntary eyes on the flag-staff of a sullen cage of a building.
八下金属的敲击声在清晨的空气中颤抖,附近小山上的一个精神恍惚的人木然凝视着一座建筑物的一间阴沉的牢房上的旗杆。
She never laughed and became very sullen.
她再也没有笑过,变得郁郁寡欢。
词形变化:
副词: sullenly | 形容词比较级: sullener | 形容词最高级: sullenest | 名词: sullenness |
a.
1. 不高兴的, 绷着脸的; 愠怒的
Susan was sullen in the morning because she hadn't slept well.
苏珊今天早上郁闷不乐, 因为昨晚没睡好。
2. 乖戾的
3. (天气)阴沉的
This sullen weather disagrees with me.
遇上这种阴沉的天气我就感到不舒服。
4. (声音, 颜色等)沉闷的
The blue eyes were reddened and sullen with weeping.
一对碧眼哭得发红, 没了光辉。
5. (水流)停滞的
A sullen stream winds its way among the trees.
一条水流滞缓的小溪蜿蜒流经树林。
sullen
形容词比较级:sullener
形容词最高级:sullenest
词形变化:
副词: sullenly | 形容词比较级: sullener | 形容词最高级: sullenest | 名词: sullenness |
同义词:
morose | glum | sulky | surly | gloomy | moody | dismal | moping | depressed | black | sad | glowering | dour | dark | hostile | bad-tempered | brooding | angry | grim | leaden | cloudy | dull | grey | gray | sombre | somber | overcast | lowering | heavy | saturnine | sour | threatening |
反义词:
amiable |
词义辨析:
同义:
a.沮丧的; 忧郁的
gloomy
dismal
glum
moody
moping
morose
sulky
同义参见:
sad
depressed
surly
black
反义:
a.不高兴的; 愠怒的
amiable
sullen['sʌlən]adj.1.■愠怒的,不高兴的,闷闷不乐的2.■愁眉不展的,苦闷的3.■沮丧的4.■(声音等)沉闷的5.■(颜色、色彩等)不鲜明的,阴暗的6.■阴沉的7.■(流水等)缓慢的;停滞的8.■[废语]邪恶的,不吉利的n.1.■[用复数][古语]愠怒,生气,情绪消沉近义词glummorosesulkysurly反义词amiablegenialgoodnatured
sullensullen[ˈsʌlən]adj.1.■愠怒的, 闷闷不乐的2.■阴沉的3.■声音沉闷的; 色彩黯淡的asullen face愠怒的面容sullen weather阴沉的天气Thesullen child refused to answer my questions.那愠怒的孩子拒绝回答我的问题。
词性变化sullen[ˈsʌlən]n.1.■[pl. ][口]不高兴, 绷脸; 忧郁in the sullens情绪不佳a fit of sullen一阵子不高兴
继承用法sullenlyadv.sullennessn.
参考词汇sullen;glum;sulky;意思都含“闷闷不乐的”。1.■sullen指“因心情不佳或发脾气而沉默不语、闷闷不乐的”, 如:The sullen girl refused to answer her mother's questions.愠怒的女孩拒绝回答她母亲的问题。2.■glum侧重“由外因导致精神不佳或不快而变得沮丧沉默的”, 如:He is glum about world affairs.他对世界形势感到怏怏不乐。3.■sulky 指“由于不高兴或不满足而表现不快或幼稚的愠怒的”, 如:Young girls sometimes become sulky because they are jealous.少女们因为嫉妒而有时变得很不高兴。
adjective
- bad-tempered and sulky
脾气坏的,愠怒的;郁郁寡欢的,阴郁的
a sullen pout.
一副愠怒撅嘴的样子。
a sullen sunless sky.
阴沉的天空。
■(especially of water) slow-moving
(尤指水流)缓慢的
rivers in sullen, perpetual flood.
水流缓慢、长期泛滥的河流。
- (the sullens)(archaic)a sulky or depressed mood
(古)情绪消沉
sullenly
adverb
sullenness
noun
语源
- Middle English (in the senses 'solitary, averse to company', and 'unusual'): from Anglo-Norman French sulein, from sol 'sole'
sullen
形容词 sullen:
showing a brooding ill humor
同义词:dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour
darkened by clouds
同义词:heavy, lowering, threatening
sullen
■Jinpei gave a sullen snort, pulling away and rubbing his eyes again.
/ Jinpei 给予了愠怒的鼻息,开走而且再一次擦他的眼睛。
■The euphoria of victory in 1945 had long since given way to sullen resentment.
1945年胜利时的欢快心情早已被阴郁的不满情绪所取代。
■And Jezebel his wife came to him and said to him, Why is your spirit so sullen that you will not eat any food?
5亚哈的妻子耶洗别来见他,问他说,你为什么灵里这样忧闷,不吃饭呢?
■"Somebody's been writing messages using my name." Bernard was sullen.
“有人用我的名义发了信息。”伯纳德恼怒的说。
■One can dump a carping husband, but what of whiny toddlers and sullen teens?
一个人可以丢弃一个挑剔的丈夫,但是烦躁的儿童和忧郁的青少年,可以吗?
■A boy of sullen humor.
一个性情忧郁的男孩
■A young woman, of sullen aspect, was sitting alone on the bench.
一个面色忧郁的年轻女人独自坐在长凳上。
■One night, a spirited group made their way into the bar, chased out the sullen army grunts and commandeered the place.
一天晚上,酒吧里突然来了群朝气蓬勃的小伙子,他们把那帮在阴气沉沉的咕嘟着的陆军战士赶了出去,并霸占了这个地方。
■The blue eyes were reddened and sullen with weeping.
一对碧眼哭得发红,没了光辉。
■A sullen stream winds its way among the trees.
一条水流滞缓的小溪蜿蜒流经树林。
■A deep peal of thunder went rolling and tumbling down the heavens and lost itself in sullen rumblings in the distance.
一阵沉雷轰轰隆隆当空滚过,渐去渐远,消失在遥远的天边。
■During the first weeks with this unorthodox case, the steps you took across the geometric rugs, on jarrah floors of a sullen red were hardly more than automatic .
与这位异教徒病人相处的最初的几个礼拜里,你走过整齐匀称的地毯和暗红色的澳大利亚加利木地板的步履,几乎是茫无意识的。
■I'd play for sullen occupation soldiers in exchange for their charity in loose change, and used the money to support my uncle and myself.
为了挣钱,我愿意冒着胆子在那群阴气沉沉的职业军人面前吹口琴,并尝试博取他们的同情心,用那些赚得的钱来维持我和叔父的生活。
■resentful at the way he was treated; a sullen resentful attitude.
为对待他的方法感到愤慨;沉闷、愤慨的态度。
■Sullen and angry, the king of Israel went to his palace in Samaria.
于是以色列王闷闷不乐地回到撒玛利亚,进了他的宫。
■Evil desires, revengeful passions, dark and sullen thoughts, were cherished, until Satan had full control of the man.
于是邪恶的欲望、复仇的心理和阴暗的思想都滋长起来,直到撒但完全控制了他。犹大成了基督仇敌的代表。
■So Ahab went home, sullen and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had said, 'I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.' He lay on his bed sulking and refused to eat.
亚哈因耶斯列人拿伯说我不敢将我先人留下的产业给你,就闷闷不乐地回宫,躺在床上,转脸向内,也不吃饭。
■Thereafter, Sullen whined the less, at least in Scarlett's presence.
从此以后,苏纶就不大哭闹了,至少在思嘉面前要好些。
■As he woke gasping from sleep he heard the sullen voices of the bells, moaning their displeasure as they descended back into cold, brooding sleep.
从睡梦中喘着气醒来,他听到阴沉的钟声,呻吟着它们的不快,再次陷入寒冷、沉思的睡眠。
■They reflect every change in their surroundings, like chameleons, and can become pessimistic, sullen, peevish and materialistically self-centered if circumstances force them to struggle in any way.
他 很 高 兴 远 亲 近 邻 知 道 他 是 一 个 和 善 的 、 愿 意 合 作 的 , 却 不 会 为 了 任 何 人 委 屈 自 己 , 使 自 己 看 起 来 俗 鄙 、 乡 愿 。
■Breaking stones by the road in sullen drudgery for two dollars a day, they are an unhappy contrast with the gaily-clad Bhutanese.
他们在公路边开采石头,一天的辛苦劳作只能换来2美元,相比衣着华丽的不丹人,他们是不幸的。
■There was an aspect of cold and sullen cruelty stamped upon them that revolted me, which, indeed, in some cases was almost uncanny in its intensity.
他们脸上都带着那么一幅冷漠、阴沉、残忍的神态,我觉得非常反感,有时我的这种反感会强烈得连我自己也感到不可思议。
■Though they were now too cold and hungry to do more, they grumbled and cast sullen looks upon their leaders.
他们虽然又冷又饿,什么事情也干不动了,但还是口出怨言,不住地对他们的首领投射凶恶的眼光。
■And time seemed, nearly, to fall away from sullen, belligerent, battered faces, as though they were fleeing back to their first condition.
他们那郁郁不乐、争斗、备受打击的面孔几乎完全超脱于时间之外,犹如在逃离现实,回到“人生之初”去。
■He continued sullen, without speaking a word.
他依然怏怏不乐,一声不响。
■He was the man who knew what underemployed peasants, underpaid workers, and sullen soldiery did about sex and drink and drugs.
他十分熟悉那些时常没有活计的农民、那些收入低微的工人和潦倒的士兵,了解他们嫖女人、酗酒和吸毒的情况。
■He found the atmosphere curiously sullen and hostile.
他发现那里的气氛阴沉得奇怪而且充满敌意。
■His wariness of the South"s overtures, apparent in the sullen manner with which he first greeted Mr.Roh on Tuesday, remained visible to the end.Mr.
他对韩国提出的合作建议态度谨慎,这从他周二与卢武铉首次会谈时的阴沉面色上就能明显看出,他的这一态度直至卢武铉此次访朝结束也未改变。
■Geri He looked up at the sullen sky.
他抬头看了一眼阴沉的天空。
■He is gloomy of disposition and sullen of temper all day.
他整日里抑郁寡欢。
■He loved Sullen, liked her sisters, respected Gerald and had a genuine fondness for the plantation.
他是爱苏纶的,他也喜欢苏纶的姐妹,他很尊敬嘉乐,也很喜爱这庄子。
■He was a silent, rather sullen man, and you felt that his affability was a duty that he imposed upon himself Christianly .
他沉默寡言,拉长着脸,使人感到他之所以对人和气,完全是他按照基督的教义迫使自己履行责任而已。
■His will was gone, and there remained only a sullen fury and despair.
他没有了主意,只有暴躁,只有颓丧。
■There is a sullen look on his face.
他满脸怒容。
■His action was alternatively vivacious and sullen.
他的举动时而轻松愉快,时而阴沉古怪。
■His action was alternately vivacious and sullen
他的举动时而轻松活泼,时而郁闷不乐。
■His tanks were soon being refuelled by sullen American prisoners.
他的坦克部队抓了大批美军俘虏。
■He seemed a sullen, patient child, hardened, perhaps to ill-treatment .
他看来是一个忧郁的、能忍耐的孩子,也许是由于受尽虐待而变得顽强了。
■He knew them to have their share of pride, the dogged sullen pride of the peasant.
他知道,她们也有她们的自尊心,那是农民的那种顽固不化的自尊心。
■He saw these other scenes through drifting vapors and swirls of sullen fog dissolving before shafts of red and garish light.
他穿过流荡的烟云和旋卷的雾震观看着这些画面。
■His brown, morose face, with its sullen brows, could be clearly seen in the light of the glowing embers.
他紧锁双眉,褐色面孔阴沉沉的,在通红的炭火的光亮中清晰可见。
■He wore rather a sullen expression.
他脸上有种不高兴的表情。
■There was little enough in him to brighten her face, for he was a sullen young fellow, and ungracious in his manner even to her.
他这个人,照说没有什么可取的地方足以使她笑逐颜开的,因为他是个乖戾的青年人,即使对她也没有什么礼貌之可言。
■The plump shadowed face and sullen oval jowl recalled a prelate, patron of arts in the middle ages.
他那郁郁寡欢的胖脸和阴沉的椭圆形下颚令人联想到中世纪作为艺术保护者的高僧。
■Instead, he sat against a wall alone, that smiling face that adorns so many advertising billboards now sullen.
他靠墙一个人坐着,那张广告宣传画中出现的迷人笑脸现在显得痛苦郁闷。
■With a broken heart as my sullen day, I won't give up yet.
伤心中,我的天空是灰色的。不过我一定不会放弃.
■Yet, the master of the city had become sullen, and he refused to see anyone.
但是城市的主人却变得阴沉下来,他拒绝会见任何人。
■Over it all hangs the torpid sullen breeze of May
但是无论哪里都躲不过那欲吹无力的五月的风。
■Indeed, the mere presence of a grape in the other chamber (in the absence of an actual monkey able to eat it) was enough to induce sullen behaviour in a female capuchin.
但是,这种公平感是在卷尾猴和人类身上各自独立演化而成的,还是来自于三千五百万年前他们共同的祖先,这个问题至今还没有答案。
■Afortiori the influence of Moloch made them become sullen.
何况莫洛克神的影响也使他们变得忧郁起来。