单词 | mope |
释义 | mope I. intransitive verb 1. chiefly dialect Britain < a wretched and peevish fellow … to mope with his fat-brained followers so far out of his knowledge — Shakespeare > 2. < doesn't pretend he is glad to be retired but he is not moping about it — Katharine Hamill > < the moping owl does to the moon complain — Thomas Gray > 3. < even when the little woman does mope along in traffic — Paul Jones > < sadly turned his back on us, moped into the sea, and took to swimming — Harper's > transitive verb 1. < you must come about with me and not mope yourself — Thomas Hughes > 2. < directs him not to shut himself up in a cloister alone, there to mope … away his life — George Horne †1792 > II. 1. < meager, muse-rid mope, adust and thin — Alexander Pope > 2. mopes plural < he's got the mopes because she's mad at him > |
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