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词汇 moping
释义 moping
present participle ofmope
mope
verb[ I ]
 disapprovinguk /məʊp/ us /moʊp/
to be unhappy and unwilling to think or act in a positive way, especially because of a disappointment: (尤指因失望而)闷闷不乐,自怨自艾
There's no point in sitting at home and moping - get out there and find yourself another job!坐在家里自怨自艾有什么用——走出去再找份工作!
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Feeling sad and unhappy
a long faceidiom
abjection
angsty
be cut upidiom
be down in the mouthidiom
be in a funkidiom
dismayed
displeased
dissatisfied
distraught
distressed
lachrymose
lonely
lonesome
lovelorn
wish you had never been bornidiom
wistful
wistfully
woe
woe is meidiom

Phrasal verb


mope around (somewhere)

Examples of moping


moping

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


They are not all sitting moping around; they are finding things to do.
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Are they moping because they had a bad night at the election?
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We do not want people to stop at home drinking in secret, moping in front of the television.
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Along the way, she learns to fight a bull herself as a way of getting her despondent lover motivated to stop moping.
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He tells her to stop moping around and do it.
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Before she enters her sophomore year in high school, she spends the summer moping around her family farm house.
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Cocktail lasts till a little after interval when it starts moping and mulling.
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Willow, moping in her room, hears a knock on the door and invites the person in without thinking.
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While we sit moping or writing morose poems and novels that glorify a non-existent past, then time passes us by.
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He began crying, moping, and removed his t-shirt to wipe his face.
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Heartbroken she might be, but she has no intention of sitting about moping.
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She is usually depicted as somber, often seen moping around the house, completely indifferent to everything around her.
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She spends most of her time moping about the orphanage and writing depressing poetry.
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She is shown moping in her bathtub, watching television, ignoring her husband.
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Bill arrives back at the office, moping, and not being able to concentrate on his work.
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