sullenness

英

美

网络  愠怒

COCA.38252

英英释义

noun

• a sullen moody resentful disposition
  Synonym:sulkinessmorosenesssourness
• a gloomy ill-tempered feeling
  Synonym:morosenessglumness

双语例句

• His bluster sank to sullenness under her look. With the first rays of light of the early morning the wooden fencing which lines the route is closed off.
  在她目光逼视下，他蛮横的表情稍加收敛，显出一副阴沉的样子。那横行在路线旁的木制藩篱，闪耀着早晨的第一道曙光，已收了起来。
• Victoria tolerated her husband's sullenness.
  维多利亚容忍了她丈夫的愠怒不语。
• After returning to home, he sank into sullenness for three days, willing to go nowhere.
  庄子回家后，闷闷不乐地呆了三天，那儿也不想去。庄周反入，三日不庭。
• We sensibly gave him wide berth, for he was a dangerous-looking man, chewing a toothpick with the arrogant sullenness of one who is willing to commit violence.
  大家明智地给了他一个宽敞的铺位，因为他一脸凶相，带着喜欢实施暴力的人的那种傲慢的神情，还嚼着牙签。
• It is they who rebuke most impressively the sullenness, the ingratitude, the discontent with which many good gifts of God are received.
  正是他们才能谴责如下行径：拜上帝所赐承受恩惠却仍然郁郁寡欢、忘恩负义和不满足。