| 词汇 | sullenly |
| 释义 | sullenly adverb uk /ˈsʌl.ən.li/ us /ˈsʌl.ən.li/ in a way that is sullen (= angry and unwilling to smile or be pleasant to people): 愠怒地;闷闷不乐地，绷着脸地 She turned her back to him and stared sullenly out of the window.她转过身背对着他，闷闷不乐地盯着窗外。 He replied, sullenly, "I'm the one who lives here." 他绷着脸回答道：“我就是住在这里的人。” See sullen Ben sat sullenly in the back of the room and refused to speak. She whispers sullenly that she might be better off dead. Moore can be a sullenly aggressive interviewee. Not being friendly abrasive abrasively abrasiveness abruptly abruptness aloof estrangement estrangement from someone flintily forbidding forbiddingly frigid gruff offhandedness offish remote remoteness reserved saturnine wintry Examples of sullenlysullenly The older people, finding it more difficult to obtain a mortgage, stayed, but did so rather sullenly. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have not been offered a larger role in the nation's affairs; they have just gone sullenly quiet due to a mixture of repressive legislation and widespread unemployment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We can say if we like that he had to because the law said so, but he could have done it either sullenly or with good will. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They consulted in an undertone, and departed as sullenly and noiselessly as they came. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Blood sullenly agrees to let them continue, and leaves the church. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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