downer

1 And yet–though it feels entirely plausible Enlightened might have set us up for a downer–she triumphs.

2 “I Took a Pill in Ibiza” is a hilarious downer of a lead single.

3 Yet like that celebrated downer, “King Lear,” the novel leaves one not just shaken but exalted.

4 Deep, dark, disturbing downers were a niche product at best.

5 Among other attempts at self-healing, I have tried: casual sex, dating apps, uppers, downers, day drinking and sobriety.

6 But the highlight — which was also a downer — was wandering through a number of communities that had been abandoned decades before and were slowly decaying.

7 As the former Dublin street busker reminisces in the country downer "Maybe Not Tonight," this first solo plunge is merely echoes of another time.

8 The title of his "99 Layoffs," which premieres this week at ACT Theatre, may suggest there's a massive downer in store. actor work that chronicles a couple going through job hell, is a comedy.

9 Getting into an auto accident today was a real downer.

今天被卷入了一起交通事故中真是一件让人沮丧的事。

10 But Mr Downer warns those who want the talks to fail to be careful what they wish for.

但是唐纳先生警告那些盼望会谈破裂的人小心那样带来的后果。

11 The only downer, we learn in a note, is that once the fountain was fixed for good, the goldfish summer vacations ended.

12 It’s a real downer to read about something as dark and unfortunate as wrongful incarceration, but Mr. Hinton expresses himself with a heart incomprehensibly swollen with love and gives meaningful insight into his alienating experience.

13 Pair it with a movie: The James Bond thriller Quantum of Solace has some lovely shots of the Italian Alps – even if the film itself is a bit of a downer.

14 Downer takes your from high to low in 20 minutes flat.

唐纳需要您从高向低在20分钟内基本持平。

15 The documentary, though it deals with show changes made after Houston's death, isn't a downer.

16 Me: I really don't want to be a downer, but...“What if he’s dead?”

17 Which is not to say she or it is a downer.

18 And wouldn’t you know it, even the zombies are downers, at least as they’re portrayed in “Zombie: The American,” the frustrating muddle of a black comedy receiving its world premiere at Woolly Mammoth Theatre.

19 It was like the writers remembered about halfway through the episode, after the productive pharmacy run and burgeoning romances, that the second half of this season is supposed to be an unmitigated downer.

20 Transparency is emerging as a trend, but the drab colors were a downer, and the straight-cut shapes of the nylon were timid to a fault.

1 抑制剂

down poison restrain depressor

2 扫兴的人

spoilsport

3 镇静剂

opiate sedative depressant tranquilizer trank kef lenitive calmative ataractic sleeper sweet spirit of niter mollifier down red tranquillizer goofball composing medicine

4 抑制药

suppressant

5 令人失望的事物

letdown anticlimax

6 减弱

rallentando down subdued attenuate watered-down fall fail flag lower sink slack wane lull wither swoon allay relent deaden slake shake buff degrade lighten subdue muffle antagonize slacken soap out

7 镇静药

sedative depressant pill trank tranx

8 安眠药

hypnotic

9 失败

unsuccessful stillborn out shicer stumer licking flivver down failure abortion rout frost flop misfire flunk blow-out unsuccess fall miscarry fail crash founder smash skid come to grief out for the count go bung bite the dust go bust draw a blank come to nothing fizzle out flame out come unstuck dip out gang agley fall through crap out fall to the ground