单词 | down look |
释义 | > as lemmasdown look a. Of a person's look, gaze, or aspect: directed downwards, lowered. Frequently in down look.Sometimes with specific connotations of scorn, sheepishness, or dejection; cf. downlooked adj., downlooking adj., and to look down on at look v. Phrasal verbs 1. ΚΠ 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Regardeure basse, doune looke. 1596 A. Copley Fig for Fortune 38 Ther is no Content in guilt of euill, A skowll down-looke, and swart synderisie Betokening him a member of the Deuill. 1604 T. Middleton Blacke Bk. sig. B4 A downe countenance he had. 1637 R. Monro Exped. Scots Regim. i. 63 Fearing..the down-looke or frowne of his Officers. a1716 O. Blackall Wks. (1723) I. xvii. 158 True Religion does not consist in a peculiar Garb..in a down Look. 1782 E. Pendleton Let. 29 July in Lett. & Papers (1967) II. 402 My Nephew..has lately lost a young negroe man..rather thin made, is a little bow legged, and has a down look when spoke to. 1821 J. Galt Ann. Parish xvii. 160 He had a down and thoughtful look..evidently a man foregone in the pleasures of this world. a1861 W. Fergusson Songs & Poems (1864) 55 A blush upon your cheek, Marion, A down glance o' your e'e, A silence when ye should ha'e spak' Were mair than words to me. 1904 McClure's Mag. Nov. 81/2 He rose with a scornful down-glance at the man with the ball. 1995 S. Heaney tr. B. Merriman in Redress of Poetry (1996) 43 Then her downlook went, her colour rose, She dried her eyes and commenced as follows. 2012 A. Craven in T. Pugh & S. Aronstein Disney Middle Ages xiii. 229 An emotive point of view attributed to the hunchback on high in the cathedral, a down-gaze that imputes Quasimodo's isolated confinement, and, perversely, his power. < as lemmas |
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