| 单词 | to look blue |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto look blue a. Of a person, the heart, etc.: depressed, low-spirited, sad, sorrowful; dismayed, downcast; (of a state or feeling) miserable, melancholy, dejected. In early use often in to look blue; now frequently in to feel blue (originally U.S.).In later use perhaps influenced by the blues (see blues n.).Occasionally (quot. a1586) used adverbially: in a melancholy way. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > dismay > [adjective] fordrevedc1175 astoniedc1386 comfortless1387 bashedc1440 bluea1450 matedc1450 quailing?a1475 dismayeda1535 bashful1552 daunted1587 excordiate1594 appalled1609 craveneda1644 astonisheda1649 consternated1667 disheartened1720 intimidated1727 coweda1745 consterned1839 unhopeful1850 a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail x. l. 10223 Here hertes bothe blw and blak they were..for here frendis dethis. a1450 (c1385) G. Chaucer Complaint of Mars (Tanner 346) (1871) l. 8 With teres blewe and with a wondyd herte Taketh youre leue. a1586 Peblis to Play in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS (1919) I. 176 Than ansuerit meg full blew. c1600 Rob. Hood (Ritson) ii. xxxvi. 84 It made the sunne looke blue. 1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin i. 316 But when he came to't, the poor Lad look't Blew. 1783 Ainsworth's Thes. Linguæ Latinæ (new ed.) i. s.v. Blue He looked very blue upon it, valde perturbatus fuit. 1825 Boston Monthly Mag. 1 19 Let no melancholic victim of ennui, complain of feeling blue, till he has felt the ‘pelting of the pitiless storm’. 1873 D. Boucicault Led Astray ii. 21 Why don't you shake off this blue mood?..Don't mope at home. 1883 Harper's Mag. Mar. 600/1 I'm not a bit blue over the prospect. 1929 P. G. Wodehouse Let. 10 Feb. in Yours, Plum (1990) i. 9 Mummie went off to London yesterday, and I am all alone here and rather blue. 1937 Life 1 Nov. 79/1 (advt.) That dull ‘blue’ feeling often caused by constipation. 1991 J. Barnes Talking it Over ii. 29 I was a bit blue, and being blue always makes me satirical. 2009 K. H. Page Body in Sleigh v. 142 She'd been feeling very blue... The midwife had warned her she'd have her ups and downs. < as lemmas |
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