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气馁的,悲哀的

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Downcast \Down"cast`\, n.
   1. Downcast or melancholy look.

            That downcast of thine eye.           --Beau. & Fl.

   2. (mining) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in
      circulating through a mine.

Downcast \Down"cast`\, a.
   Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness,
   modesty, dejection, or guilt.

         'T is love, said she; and then my downcast eyes, And
         guilty dumbness, witnessed my surprise.  --Dryden.
   - {Down"cast`ly}, adv. -- {Down"cast`ness}, n.

资料来源 : WordNet®

downcast
     adj 1: directed downward; "a downcast glance"
     2: low in spirits; "lonely and blue in a strange city";
        "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and
        resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his
        defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted" [syn: {blue},
         {depressed}, {dispirited}, {down(p)}, {downhearted}, {down
        in the mouth}, {low}, {low-spirited}]
     n : a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine