| 单词 | to hang the head |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto hang the head (down) b. to hang the head (down): i.e. as a sign of shame, despondency, contrition, or sheepishness. So to hang the lip, etc. 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 > humility > feeling of shame > be ashamed [verb (intransitive)] > look ashamed to hang the head (down)c1275 society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > be repentant or contrite [verb (intransitive)] > hang head in contrition to hang the head (down)c1275 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 7829 Þa heng heo hire hæfued & heolde touward bræsten. c1375 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 1030 (1079) And þerwithal he heng a-doun his hed. c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 69 Crist comfortiþ his children..þerfore shulden þei rere þer heedis..and nouȝt hong þere heedis doun. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III 54 Although he was there wt all a litle vexed, beganne somewhat to hang ye hedde [1568 Grafton Began somwhat to hang the lip]. 1765 C. Johnstone Chrysal IV. i. vii. 41 He hung down his head, and..withdrew quite abashed. 1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 149 The Brethren o' the mystic level May hing their head in wofu' bevel. 1790 C. Lennox Euphemia III. xxxv. 2 Miss Bellenden hangs her fair head at this intelligence. 1797 M. Robinson Walsingham III. 173 The landlord hung his brow, abashed and selfreproved. 1887 W. Besant World Went vi. 48 He began to hang his head again, and to be despondent. < as lemmas |
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