glum
glum 英 [glʌm] 美 [ɡlʌm]
adj. 阴沉的；忧郁的
名词复数:glums 比较级:glummer 最高级:glummest
- To be glum is to be sad. Glum is a word for being depressed, bummed out, or down in the dumps.
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- adj. 阴沉的；忧郁的
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1. The main shopping street had become a glum passageway of shuttered storefronts.
购物大街已经变成了这些布满百叶窗的店铺间阴沉的过道。
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2. Once they settled in, my father looked back over his shoulder and asked the children if Santa had found them yet. Three glum faces mutely gave him his answer.
一旦他们在汽车里安顿了下来，爸爸转过头来问那几个孩子，圣诞老人是否找到了他们。三张忧郁的脸孔沉默无言地似乎作了回答。
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3. “I have more concerns about potential risks and vulnerabilities than most people, ” he said, with glum understatement.
“与大多数人相比，我更加关切潜在的风险和弱点，”他轻描淡写地如许说道。
- glum (adj.) 1540s, "sullen, moody, frowning," from Middle English gloumen (v.) "become dark" (c. 1300), later gloumben "look gloomy or sullen" (late 14c.); see gloom. Or from or influenced by Low German glum "gloomy, troubled, turbid." In English the word was also formerly a noun meaning "a sullen look" (1520s). An 18c. extended or colloquial form glump led to the expression the glumps "a fit of sulkiness." Glunch (1719) was a Scottish variant. Related: Glumly; glumness.
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