down in the mouth

基本解释

• 垂头丧气；沮丧的

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• Talk about getting down in the mouth - that was me all over.
  也就是嘴上这样说说——这就是我。
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• If this should happen, the speaker might feel down in the mouth.
  如果发生这种情况，这个发言者可能会感到沮丧。
• The manager looked so down in the mouth that the staff knew something was seriously wrong.
  经理看来如此闷闷不乐，于是全体职员就知道事情必定不妙。

原声例句

• If this should happen, the speaker might feel down in the mouth.

权威例句

• Occasionally he grimaces, as if he were biting down on the golden flames in his mouth.
  NEWYORKER: Baptizing the Gun
• The survivors floated down the Amur, wintered at the river's mouth and in the spring turned north into the Sea of Okhotsk.
  ECONOMIST: The Amur River
• Valle, she said, had always been aroused by "unusual things" including the thought of a woman boiled down on a platter with an apple in her mouth, his lawyer said.
  NPR: Wife: NYC Cannibal-Plotter Viewed Disturbing Porn

词组短语

短语

• gotten down in the mouth 变得沮丧
• Be down in the mouth 无精打采的;垂头丧气;丧气
• look down in the mouth 显得很沮丧