英语词汇“low、spirited”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

low-spirited

释义

low-ˈspirited, a.
[f. low a. + spirit n. + -ed².]
Having low spirits. †a. Mean in spirit; abject, base, cowardly, paltry (obs.). b. Wanting in animation or sprightliness; dejected, dispirited.
a.1588Shakes. L.L.L. i. i. 250 That low spirited Swaine, that base Minow of thy myrth.1655E. Terry Voy. E. Ind. 79 People..so low-spirited..that they dare not fight.1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 67 Low-spirited scoundrels, who rob the widow and the fatherless.1795Ld. Auckland Corr. (1862) III. 283 This country is very low-spirited as to continental politics.
b.1753N. Torriano Gangr. Sore Throat 120 She was very low-spirited and hysterical.1778F. Burney Evelina xxiii. (1791) I. 134 When we returned home, we were all low-spirited.1833J. H. Newman Lett. (1891) I. 432, I was low-spirited about the state of things and thought nothing could be done.1869R. T. Claridge Cold Water Cure 55 Where the patient is low spirited or unwell.
Hence low-ˈspiritedness, the condition of being low-spirited; (a) † Cowardice, meanness (obs.). (b) Dejection, depression, faint-heartedness.
1652J. Wright tr. Camus' Nat. Paradox vii. 145 Our low-spiritedness stretched out the neck to this blow.1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) I. 230 Nor shou'd I..charge 'em with meanness and insufficiency on the account of this low-spiritedness which they discover.1741–70Mrs. Carter Lett. (1808) 351 The low spiritedness..of which you complain, assures me you cannot be well.1812W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XXXIV. 410 The reverse of low-spiritedness is gaiety.

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