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单词

gloom

读音
ɡluːm
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词根

"Gloom" 源自于古英语的词 "glom",意为掩盖、遮蔽。相关的词有 "gloomy"(形容词,沮丧的、阴郁的)和 "gloominess"(名词,阴暗或者沮丧的状态)。

释义

n. 昏暗;阴暗 [ 复数 glooms 第三人称单数 glooms 现在分词 glooming 过去式 gloomed 过去分词 gloomed ]

例句

Why are people so full of gloom and doom?
人们的心里为什么满是悲观失望?
The flashlights barely penetrated the gloom.
手电筒勉强照见那幽暗处。
There's a mood of gloom and despondency in the country.
这个国家有一种忧郁和沮丧的氛围。

强化记忆

你可以联想到 "gloom" 和 "doom" 因为它们在发音上很相似,而且这两个词在意义上也有共同点:都带有一种阴郁、压抑的感觉。"Gloom" 最早可以追溯到中世纪的欧洲,它用来形容那些阴暗、温暖但令人压抑的地方,比如泥土墙和草茅屋顶的小屋。在文学作品中,"gloom" 常常被用来创造一种阴郁或忧郁的氛围。

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One, you can swirl and twirland gloom and doom forever,or two, you can grieve
who we're trying to counter this process with.Now, not all doom and gloom.So the rest I'd like to talk about some of the positive things
you might think Michelangelo is making fun of us.But he's about to dispel the gloomby using those bright colors right underneath Noah:
to make this sort of behavior harder.This may seem like doom and gloom,like there's nothing we can do about it,
In a world of endless ways forward, I felt at my final stop.So what melts fear or dullness or gloom?Play.
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