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词汇 frowning
释义 frowning
present participle offrown
frown
verb[ I ]
uk /fraʊn/ us /fraʊn/
C2
to bring your eyebrows together so that there are lines on your face above your eyes, often while turning the corners of your mouth downwards, showing that you are annoyed, worried, sad, or thinking hard: 皱眉,蹙额
frown atShe frowned at me, clearly annoyed.她皱着眉头看着我,显然是生气了。
He frowned as he read the instructions, as if puzzled.他看说明书时皱着眉头,一副迷惑不解的样子。
Don't frown so - it spoils your pretty face.
Frowning, she started to search in her bag for the lost ticket.
People who frown a lot or have very expressive faces usually develop deep lines as they get older.
What are you frowning about now? What have I done?
The teacher frowned and drew her red pen firmly across the page.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Grimacing and frowning
bitchy resting face
cloud
curl
death stare
evil
eye-roll
eye-rolling
glare
grimace
if looks could kill...idiom
knit
knit your brow/browsidiom
look daggers at someoneidiom
purse
roll
scowling
scowlingly
screw
sneer
witheringly

Phrasal verb


frown on/upon something

Examples of frowning


frowning

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


It would be hard going for the novice (it certainly had me frowning in some of the geochemical sections).
Responses consisted of choosing between "good," represented with a smiling face, or "bad," represented with a frowning face.
By the end of the performance, they were reacting, giggling, and frowning with the rest of the audience.
Negative affect was coded if frowning, crying, yelling, pouting or explicit facial expressions of anger were present.
This not only captures frowning instances of a person but also detects the tension in the corrugator supercilii muscle due to thought concentration or increased mental activity.
They are not frowning on our reprocessing or on that of other countries.
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There is currently not quite a disdain, but a frowning on some campaigning work.
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It is no use frowning and saying that there is no comparison here; there is.
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I apologise for suggesting that he was frowning.
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I was not frowning about that, but at the thought that the problem behind this is the absolute shortage of dwellings.
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Instead of the authorities frowning on them and trying to injure them, they ought to encourage marches and.
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I am not frowning on people who have had such success.
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We note that he is merely frowning.
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He is frowning at me.
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It is no good his frowning.
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