He was disconsolate after his bicycle was stolen. 他的自行车被偷后,他郁郁不欢。
Why is she always disconsolate? 她为什么总是郁郁不乐的?
Why is she always disconsolate? 她为什么总是郁郁不乐的?
disconsolate
[ adj ]
sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled
<adj.all> inconsolable when her son died
causing dejection
<adj.all> a blue day the dark days of the war a week of rainy depressing weather a disconsolate winter landscape the first dismal dispiriting days of November a dark gloomy day grim rainy weather
Disconsolate \Dis*con"so*late\, n. Disconsolateness. [Obs.] --Barrow.
Disconsolate \Dis*con"so*late\, a. [LL. disconsolatus; L. dis- + consolatus, p. p. of consolari to console. See {Console}, v. t.] 1. Destitute of consolation; deeply dejected and dispirited; hopelessly sad; comfortless; filled with grief; as, a bereaved and disconsolate parent.
One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood disconsolate. --Moore.
The ladies and the knights, no shelter nigh, Were dropping wet, disconsolate and wan. --Dryden.
2. Inspiring dejection; saddening; cheerless; as, the disconsolate darkness of the winter nights. --Ray.
Haig said the Massachusetts governor is the voice for "discredited and disconsolate liberals," and told his GOP audience the party must work to bring back disaffected conservatives in its own ranks.
It is Fritz Lang's Metropolis made for the age of colour, hi-fi sound and urban paranoia. In the opening long shot of the city, chimneys belch fire like disconsolate dragons.
The gray, ghostlike image of the artist (based on an actual tracing of Mr. Johns's shadow by a friend) moves through these pictures like a disconsolate double.
Then go home, chat to friends who are in some ways more comfortably situated than you are, listen to their crises and despondencies, go to bed feeling disconsolate.
However, Wigglesworth judged its sober tempo to a nicety - a sense of timeless processional gravity maintained at a decent clip, a strong profile fixed for the long series of disconsolate climaxes.