| 单词 | to gloom at |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto gloom at 1. intransitive. To look sullen or displeased; to frown, scowl, lower; also to gloom on or to gloom at (a person). In later use also (through influence of gloomy adj.): To look dismal or dejected, to wear an air of sombre melancholy; to be gloomy. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > be or become dejected [verb (intransitive)] > look dejected nivel?c1225 to hang the head (down)c1275 lourc1290 gloomc1400 gluma1500 mumpc1610 the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > expression of ill humour > express ill humour [verb (intransitive)] > frown or scowl lourc1290 scowl1340 frownc1386 glouta1400 gloomc1400 gluma1500 lump1577 to knit, bend one's brows1600 caperate1623 glower1775 α. quasi-transitive.1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iii. v. 240 They..gloomed unutterable things on George and his Speech.1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xiv. vi. 705 ‘What interloping fellow is this?’ gloomed Valori.c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 94 ‘Our syre syttes’, he [Jonah] says, ‘on sege so hyȝe..& gloumbes ful lyttel, Þaȝ I be nummen in Niniuie & naked dispoyled. c1400 Rom. Rose 4356 Fortune.. whilom wole on folk smyle, And glowmbe on hem another while. ?1521 A. Barclay Bk. Codrus & Mynalcas sig. Biijv As soone as clerkes, begyn to talke and chat Some other gloumes, and hath enuy therat. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 415 O fekill Fortune..With busteous brows glowmand on hir brie. a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1848) II. 358 Sche glowmed boyth at the messenger and at the requeast, and skarselie wold geve a good worde or blyth countenance to any [etc.]. 1628 S. Rutherford Let. 23 Apr. in Joshua Redivivus (1664) 426 That long loan..deserveth more thanks..then that ye should gloom & murmure when he craveth but his own. 1697 W. Congreve Mourning Bride i. i. 12 What's he, who with contracted Brow, And sullen Port, glooms downward with his Eyes? 1720 D. Manley Power of Love i. 76 He gloomed from beneath his Eyes, bit his Lips [etc.]. 1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1729) 16 I wat on him she did na gloom, But blinkit bonnilie. 1831 Fraser's Mag. 2 699 Some gloomed upon him; others pitied the tall and gallant fellow. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair l. 400 Her father, sitting glooming in his place at the other end of the table. 1860 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) VI. 94 The Stanleys, Howards, Talbots, and Nevilles were glooming apart, indignant at the neglect of their own claims. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 390 But whoso gloomed at tidings men might show, It was not Kiartan. 1881 E. Lynn Linton My Love! III. 36 She was glooming over her daughter's prolonged absence, and fearing she scarcely knew what. 1883 Cent. Mag. 25 891/2 I hate myself for glooming about the house in secret. 1967 ‘A. Garve’ Very Quiet Place i. iv. 59 ‘What did you do?’ ‘Gloomed for a week—then started to write it again.’ 1968 H. Franklin Crash vi. 77 I sat and gloomed in the hotel lounge. < as lemmas |
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