lugubrious
lugubrious 英 [ləˈgu:briəs] 美 [lʊˈɡubriəs, -ˈɡju-]
adj. 悲哀的，悲惨的
- Funerals are lugubrious. So are rainy days and Mondays. Anything that makes you sad, gloomy, or mournful can be called lugubrious.
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- adj. 悲哀的，悲惨的
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1. He talked of reform and modernisation. Perhaps, then, Russia was finally moving away from its lugubrious KGB track.
他谈到了改革和现代化，也许在那时俄国可以最终驶离可悲的克格勃掌权的轨道。
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2. Cosette was meditating sadly; for, although she was only eight years old, she had already suffered so much that she reflected with the lugubrious air of an old woman.
珂赛特很发愁，因为，虽然她还只有八岁，但已受过那么多的苦，所以当她发愁时那副苦相已象个老太婆了。
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3. An excessive emotion was required to wring from him, once or twice a year, that lugubrious laugh of the convict, which is like the echo of the laugh of a demon.
必得有一种外来的刺激才能使他发出一种象是魔鬼笑声的回音的苦笑，那也是一年难得一两次的事。
- lugubrious (adj.) "expressing or characterized by sadness or mournfulness; doleful," c. 1600, formerly also lugubrous, from -ous + Latin lugubris "mournful, doleful, pertaining to mourning," from lugere "to mourn," from PIE root *leug- "to break; to cause pain" (source also of Greek lygros "mournful, sad," Sanskrit rujati "breaks, torments," Lettish lauzit "to break the heart"). Related: Lugubriously; lugubriousness.
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