mope
mope 英 [məʊp] 美 [moʊp]
vi. 忧郁；百无聊赖 vt. 使忧郁；没精打采地度过 n. 忧郁的人；消沉
进行时:moping 过去式:moped 过去分词:moped 第三人称单数:mopes 名词复数:mopes
- When you're bummed out, I bet you sometimes mope. Moping is something people do when they're feeling gloomy and doomy and sad.
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- vi. 忧郁；百无聊赖
- vt. 使忧郁；没精打采地度过
- n. 忧郁的人；消沉
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1. Was there any use buying Dilcey if she was going to mope about the child?
只买来迪尔茜，要是她整天惦记孩子，又有什么用呢？
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2. Janie Brown's boyfriend Steve called time on their six-month romance yesterday and rather than mope, she decided to fix herself up with a date straight away.
情人节的前一天，珍妮 布朗与其男友六个月的恋情正式告吹，小妮子没有选择在家闷闷不乐，而是决定豁出去了立马给自己找个伴儿。
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3. Audiences may have tired of the high mope factor in these movies; they'd prefer seeing an action star spend less time at seances and more at old-fashioned ass-whups.
观众可能早已厌烦了这些电影中的压抑的元素；他们宁愿少看点动作明星开会，而多看点他很老套拳脚功夫。
- mope (v.) 1560s, "to move and act unconsciously;" 1580s, "to be listless and apathetic," the sound of the word perhaps somehow suggestive of low feelings (compare Low German mopen "to sulk," Dutch moppen "to grumble, to grouse," Danish maabe, dialectal Swedish mopa "to mope"). Related: Moped; moping; mopey; mopish.
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