gloom

英 [glu?m] 美[ɡlum]

CET6TEM4GRE中低頻詞常用詞匯

復數:?glooms;

1. 哥哥處在一個若隱若現、朦朧、模糊的陰暗、昏暗環境中，自然會感到很憂郁、郁悶。

gloom 憂郁

詞源同gleam, glimmer, 微光，朦朧。引申義憂郁。

gloom (n.): 1590s, originally Scottish, "a sullen look," probably from gloom (v.) "look sullen or displeased" (late 14c., gloumen), of unknown origin; perhaps from an unrecorded Old English verb or from a Scandinavian source (compare Norwegian dialectal glome "to stare somberly"), or from Middle Low German glum "turbid," Dutch gluren "to leer." Not considered to be related to Old English glom "twilight" (see gloaming).

Sense of "darkness, obscurity" is first recorded 1629 in Milton's poetry; that of "melancholy, dejection, cloudiness or cheerless heaviness of mind" is from 1744; but gloomy with a corresponding sense is attested from 1580s.

1. Ellery's return will help to chase away some of the gloom.: 埃勒里的歸來可以驅散一些抑郁的情緒。

2. The economic gloom of the early 1980s was relieved by fanciful architecture.: 20世紀80年代初期的經濟蕭條氣氛因各種奇異古怪建筑的出現而有所緩解。

3. The gloom deepened after a thumping ￡45m loss at British Rail.: 英國鐵路公司遭受了4,500萬英鎊的巨額損失后境況更加慘淡。

4. "I wish I did," said Phil Jordan, relapsing into his usual gloom.: “我要是那樣做了就好了，”菲爾·喬丹說道，又像往常一樣消沉起來。

5. The pound's weakness compounded the widespread gloom in the City.: 英鎊的疲軟加重了籠罩在倫敦金融區上空的慘淡愁云。