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sat·ur·nine
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saturninely (adv.), saturnineness (n.), saturninity (n.)
词根:saturnism
n.saturnism [内科] 铅中毒,铅毒
Adjective
1. bitter or scornful;
"the face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips...twisted with disdain"- Oscar Wilde
2. showing a brooding ill humor;
"a dark scowl"
"the proverbially dour New England Puritan"
"a glum, hopeless shrug"
"he sat in moody silence"
"a morose and unsociable manner"
"a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven
"a sour temper"
"a sullen crowd"
"阴郁的,忧郁的,迟缓的,严肃的,不容易兴奋或愉快的",15世纪中期,字面意思是"在土星的影响下出生",来自中古英语 Saturne(见 Saturn)+ -ine(1)。旧医学认为这些特征是由土星的占星影响引起或影响的,土星是离太阳最远(在当时的知识中)的行星,因此它的旋转最慢,最冷。土星在炼金术中也与铅有关。
铅的
忧郁的:与铅中毒有关的迟钝状态
Middle English, borrowed from Medieval Latin sāturnīnus (Latin Sāturnīnus, a Roman cognomen), from Latin Sāturnus saturn + -īnus -ine >entry 1
The first known use of saturnine was in the 15th century
satyrnoun
often capitalized a forest god believed by the ancient Greeks to have the ears and tail of a horse or goat and to enjoy rowdy pleasures
a man having strong sexual desire
saturnineadjective
sullen sense 1a
saturnineadjective
of or relating to lead
of, relating to, or produced by the absorption of lead into the system saturnine gout
saturnine poisoning
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。
2 The mood is too saturnine, the occasional nods to social criticism too stilted.
3 Lilli Palmer is a saturnine icon in the Marlene Dietrich mold.
4 Tall, sharp-featured, saturnine and with an incisive voice, Burke was perfectly cast as Marker.
5 On stage, the effects were dark and saturnine, with the models’ hair stringy, like that of drowned mermaids, colors pitching blood red against deep blue.
6 On one wall is the green, glowing, saturnine self-portrait of Andy Warhol.
7 Vierne's life was one of hardship, disappointment, handicap and horror, all expressed in his murky organ music full of sickly harmonies and saturnine sonorities.
8 The national temperament, at least as Mr. Kaurismaki sketches it, is decidedly saturnine.
9 Slowly, though, it is Skarsgård who takes charge, positioning Dima—ruthless, jovial, and doomed—at the heart of this saturnine tale.
10 But Bagsley made an effort to rush forward to grasp Barton by the hand, but he was withheld by the weight of his more saturnine companion.
11 This current fascination may attest as well to a saturnine swing in the sociopolitical consciousness.
12 Henry Goodman is a silky, saturnine Sir Humphrey; every seam of David Haig's garments appears to be splitting under the pressure of his prime ministerial tension.
13 The national temperament, at least as Kaurismäki sketches it, is decidedly saturnine.
14 Pat and Steve, moving across the Golden Gate Bridge, bought a hilltop plot that looked onto the marshes and the saturnine eastern face of Mt.
15 When “Studio 54” screened at Sundance in 2018, the audience hissed every time Mr. Cohn’s saturnine image flashed on the screen.
16 Waters emerged as its new, more saturnine leader.
17 Chouinard may be the face of Patagonia, and its presiding saturnine spirit, but the mood around the place is distinctly upbeat, optimistic, and youthful—a distillation of his can-and-must-do side, minus the ain’t-no-use.
18 The sun had just gone down, and white light glowed between the darkening sky and the dormant fields, the crouching, saturnine orchards.
19 The brooding, saturnine artist has evolved into a genial grandfather.
20 But even in that calm gloom, my eyes slowly acclimated to the 14 grandly saturnine paintings, made by Mark Rothko in the late 1960s.
2 冷漠
cool passive chill arctic hash ICY stony standoff impersonal unfriendly disinterested ice-cold aseptic unsympathetic clammy emotionless impassive phlegmatic indrawn standoffish winterly aloof frost phlegm insensibility
6 阴沉
tenebrific dark gray greasy solemn dun overcast somber surly languid sulky lowery adust drumly u. heavy darkly lower shade dull moody melancholy gloomy lowering dreary morbid dusky sullen dour sunless mirthless clouded doleful sepulchral tenebrous disconsolate drearisome dourly sombrely duskily dullness cloudiness sullenness bleak dismal sombre grey funereal miserable glowering dully dreariness drack dolorous godforsaken sickly louring bringdown scowl verjuice
7 迟钝的
dopey glassy logy sulky slow heavy dull dim sluggish wanting bovine obtuse uncoordinated simple-minded torpid purblind blockish
9 阴沉的
tenebrific dark gray greasy solemn dun overcast somber surly languid sulky lowery adust drumly heavy dull moody melancholy gloomy lowering dreary morbid dusky sullen dour sunless mirthless clouded doleful sepulchral tenebrous disconsolate drearisome bleak dismal sombre grey funereal miserable glowering drack dolorous godforsaken threatening sickly louring bringdown
11 阴郁的
driegh blue dark brown gray cloudy dusk desolate overcast dreary somber austere dusky sullen dour morose sunless sulky funereal dreich dree defunctive grum subfusc funebrial smileless miserable dismal cheerless dyspeptic sour
12 沉郁
13 沉默寡言
still secret self-contained secretive uncommunicative incommunicable taciturn incommunicative
14 冷漠的
cool passive chill arctic hash ICY stony standoff impersonal unfriendly disinterested ice-cold aseptic unsympathetic clammy emotionless impassive phlegmatic indrawn standoffish winterly aloof
16 阴郁
driegh blue dark brown gray cloudy dusk desolate overcast dreary somber austere dusky sullen dour morose sunless sulky funereal dreich dree defunctive grum subfusc funebrial smileless blackly shadow sadden sour cheerless dourly morosely sourness
17 性情乖僻的
18 不愉快的
warm poor thin evil ugly vinegar cheesy rotten poisonous undesirable unwelcome rancid seedy ungrateful disagreeable joyless dissatisfy
19 讥诮的
20 铅中毒的
22 忧郁的
blue moody melancholy gloomy depressive somber melancholic downbeat bluesy pensive mirthless lugubrious triste atrabilious adust tristful low-spirited mopy black dark dreary morbid sombre glum joyless funereal disconsolate wan depressed brooding doleful die-away heavy yellow oppressive dismal dusky plaintive dumpy hipped black-faced languishing vapourish mopish grum spleenful dumpish
23 铅中毒
24 严肃的
matronlike sober-blooded heavy serious solid severe grave awful rigorous rigid elevated sober solemn no-nonsense starchy austere portentous oracular funereal lenten serious-minded sobersided
25 忧郁
blue moody melancholy gloomy depressive somber melancholic downbeat bluesy pensive mirthless lugubrious triste atrabilious adust tristful low-spirited mopy dolefully blackly sombrely cloudily dump gloom blues mope dumps blueness hyp dolefulness shadow overshadow blue devils black dog black dark dreary morbid sombre glum joyless funereal disconsolate darkly dejection wan depressed brooding doleful overcloud the vapours die-away heavy yellow oppressive dismal dusky plaintive dumpy hipped black-faced languishing vapourish mopish grum spleenful dumpish nagrams nerve oppression hump spleen doldrums sullen tristesse cafard megrim mulligrubs hip sober