英:[ˈwəʊbɪgɒn]
美:[ˈwoʊbɪgɔn]
英:[ˈwəʊbɪgɒn]
美:[ˈwoʊbɪgɔn]
woe·be·gone
wo bih gan [or] wo bih gawn
Adjective
1. worn and broken down by hard use;
"a creaky shack"
"a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape"
"a flea-bitten sofa"
"a run-down neighborhood"
"a woebegone old shack"
2. affected by or full of grief or woe;
"his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier
公元1300年左右出现了“ me is wo bigone 悲痛困扰着我”等表达方式,源于 woe 和 begon 所组成的短语,过去分词来自于中古英语的 bego,意为“包围,淹没”,源于古英语 began 的“穿过,横越; 居住,占据; 环绕,包围”(参见 be- 和 go (动词))。该动词现已过时,仅存于该词中石化的过去分词。
Middle English wo begon, from wo, noun + begon, past participle of begon to go about, beset, from Old English begān, from be- + gān to go — more at go >entry 1
The first known use of woebegone was in the 14th century
woebegoneadjective
showing great woe, sorrow, or misery
woebegone faces
being in a sad state
a woebegone village
1 Beginning his act while seated in the audience, with a cowboy hat obscuring his impossibly angular features, Gosling was in character as the woebegone Ken, a macho hunk doomed to play beta in the toy netherworld of Barbie.
2 I glanced at David, woebegone as always, but I knew he wasn’t sad at leaving Mr. Hull or at leaving China.
3 Only the woebegone Oakland Athletics are worse.
4 Noll’s first three seasons ended with losing records as he built up what had been a woebegone franchise into one of the league’s greatest dynasties, winning four Super Bowl titles in a six-year period.
5 The Vikings have the same 6-5 record but host the woebegone Bears Monday night.
6 Wilson was held to 95 yards passing with a touchdown and a pair of interceptions, and woebegone Denver finished with just 197 yards of total offense.
7 Its closing sequence features a rapid-fire R.E.M. selection of great images of cinema—Daffy Duck’s loopy visage, Chaplin’s expression of woebegone bewilderment, that lightning-strike of transcendence known as Falconetti—ultimately mingled with flashbacks from Babylon itself.
8 Everal weeks ago, a friend-whom for these purposes we'll call joe-came to me with a woebegone expression on his face.
几个星期以前,一个朋友——因为某些原因,我们暂且叫他乔吧——愁眉苦脸地来找我。我问他怎么了,他说他进退两难。
9 Again, she doesn’t sound exhausted or woebegone, giving her words a force of purpose and skipping melodrama altogether.
10 This was the second time in 32 drafts for this woebegone franchise that the Timberwolves held the top pick.
11 In addition, John Stange brings out the woebegone kookiness in John Dodge, the handyman, who — when he’s not reading books about gravity — forms a touching friendship with Mary.
12 In exchange, Democrats wanted to restore special allowances for immigrants from woebegone lands like Haiti and El Salvador as well as some African countries – allowances rescinded by the Trump administration.
13 The Reds were able to find something slightly savory from the carcass of the woebegone A’s, marginally improving their bullpen with the addition of Moll, a slider specialist who is tough on left-handed hitters.
14 Established in 1866, the ASPCA is familiar to many Americans from its fundraising ads featuring woebegone animals, particularly a 2007 spot that featured singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan and ran for years.
15 Kansas City instead marched methodically down field only to twice settle for field goals, leaving the woebegone Rams surprisingly within 13-3 lead at intermission.
16 Alternately woebegone and hopeful, his star-studded “Lovin’ of the Game,” out Friday, is an ecstatic document of what the fiddle has meant to his story — and what he hopes to mean to its history.
17 Cincinnati fans watching from home were thinking they were about to see their woebegone franchise reach a turning point behind the new quarterback.
18 Some woebegone pets huddle on a flooded Miami street; egrets strut through a sodden graveyard.
19 That long drought has made Seattle a woebegone franchise, the butt of jokes.
20 Look you are woebegone, what thing?
瞧你愁眉苦脸的, 什么事 呀 ?
1 愁容满面的
2 忧愁
dark sad depressed gloomy depressive sadly worry depression gloom sadden depress pensive triste dumpish sadness
3 悲哀
sorry sad miserable touching dismal sorrowful mournful rueful lugubrious sepulchral lachrymose tear sorrow misery dole grieve distress sadden deject threnetic sore bleak dreary woeful sullen lamentable plaintive elegiac funereal lamenting ruth dolorous triste tristful elegiacal tsoris threnode passion teen sadness woe bitterness gloom heaviness pall threnody dolour wae con dolore
4 悲哀的
sorry sad miserable touching dismal sorrowful mournful rueful lugubrious sepulchral lachrymose threnetic sore bleak dole dreary woeful sullen lamentable plaintive elegiac funereal lamenting ruth dolorous triste tristful elegiacal
7 悲伤的
unhappy dreary grievous sorrowful mournful plaintive rueful doleful triste woful tristful wailful dumpish moanful blue sad heavy distressed heartbroken woeful lamentable jaundiced tragic misty desolate lugubrious dolorous tear-stained minor tearful sorry grieving mirthless heartsick lachrymose funereal
8 愁眉苦脸的
11 悲伤
unhappy dreary grievous sorrowful mournful plaintive rueful doleful triste woful tristful wailful dumpish moanful heavily sadly tear grief sorrow sadness mourning heartache plain mourn grieve sadden rue bewail fracture sad tragic misty desolate woeful lugubrious woefully dolefully mournfully sorrowfully plaintively lugubriously desolately desolation bleed crush dolorous tear-stained blue minor distressed tearful woe care distress lament calamity dolour tristesse shock weep gloom sorry grieving mirthless heartsick lachrymose funereal sickness blues lamentation affect pine get down cut up