gloomy
英 [ˈɡluː.mi]
美 [ˈɡluː.mi]
【记忆】谐音:哥路迷。哥哥一个人去森林的时候迷路了,让他非常的沮丧。==》沮丧的,忧郁的。
【记法】谐音:戈路迷
【联想】居然在戈壁滩里迷路了,怎么能让人不郁闷?
- gloomy (adj.)
- 1580s, probably from gloom (n.) even though that word is not attested as early as this one. Shakespeare used it of woods, Marlowe of persons. Gloomy Gus has been used in a general sense of "sullen person" since 1902, the name of a pessimistic and defeatist newspaper comics character introduced about that time by U.S. illustrator Frederick Burr Opper. Related: Gloomily; gloominess.
- 1. Some good might come of all this gloomy business.
- 生意不景气也未必全是坏事。
- 2. The country is currently obsessed with gloomy prognostications about its future.
- 该国现在正弥漫着对未来的悲观预测。
- 3. The short-term outlook for employment remains gloomy.
- 近期的就业前景依然暗淡。
- 4. Inside it's gloomy after all that sunshine.
- 尽管阳光明媚,里面依然暗淡无光。
- 5. They found him in gloomy, downbeat mood.
- 他们发现他情绪低落,无精打采。