saturnine
saturnine 英 [ˈsætənaɪn] 美 [ˈsætərnaɪn]
adj. 忧郁的；阴沉的；铅中毒的；沉默寡言的
名词复数:saturnines
- Medieval alchemists ascribed to the planet Saturn a gloomy and slow character. When people are called saturnine, it means they are like the planet––gloomy, mean, scowling. Not exactly the life of the party.
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- adj. 忧郁的；阴沉的；铅中毒的；沉默寡言的
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1. With Mr Heathcliff, grim and saturnine, on the one hand, and Hareton, absolutely dumb, on the other, I made a somewhat cheerless meal, and bid adieu early.
在我的一边坐的是希刺克厉夫先生，冷酷而阴沉，另一边是哈里顿，一声也不吭，我吃了一顿多少有点不愉快的饭，就早早的辞去了。
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2. It’s a little higher and faster, but with odd, devastating pauses and saturnine shades of mockery.
而是稍微高一点、快一点，但又带有奇特的、富有感染力的停顿以及隐隐的嘲笑。
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3. The dermatologists and plastic surgeons I interviewed noted that creases bestowing an angry or saturnine look (usually forehead furrows) on their bearers are particularly irksome.
我采访过的皮肤专家及整形医生都认为，那些让人看起来忿怒或缄默的皱纹（通常是抬头纹）尤其令人讨厌。
- saturnine (adj.) "gloomy, morose, sluggish, grave," mid-15c., literally "born under the influence of the planet Saturn," from Middle English Saturne (see Saturn) + -ine (1). Medieval physiology believed these characteristics to be caused by the astrological influence of the planet Saturn, which was the most remote from the Sun (in the limited knowledge of the times) and thus coldest and slowest in its revolution.
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