woebegone

[US]/'wəʊbɪgɒn/
[UK]/'wobɪɡɔn/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. 愁眉苦臉的,不體面的

Example Sentences

don't look so woebegone, Joanna.

喬安娜,別看起來那麼愁眉苦臉的。

a rundown, woebegone old shack.

一座破爛的、又舊又差的小木屋

Real-world Examples

No one has ever seen mice more woebegone than these.

從沒見過比這些老鼠更愁眉苦臉的了。

Source: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

She looked thunderstruck when she saw his woebegone face in the shadows of the drapery.

她在簾子後面看見他那張可憐的小臉,大喫一驚。

Source: Gone with the Wind

Harry had not seen him this close-up since his return to the school; he looked utterly woebegone.

自從他回到學校以後,哈利還沒有在這麼近的距離看到過他;他看上去愁容滿面的。

Source: 5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Her situation seemed so hopeless, so woebegone, as to baffle mortal power to relieve her.

她的處境似乎如此無望, 如此悲痛欲絕, 以致無法用凡人的力量來解救她。

Source: Monk (Part 2)

Gerald had begun to work himself up into a pleasurable shouting rage when something in Scarlett's woebegone face stopped him.

傑拉爾德正準備痛痛快快發泄一下心中的怒氣,這時他看見思嘉滿臉悲傷的神色,便止住了。

Source: Gone with the Wind

Her eyes that had been so sharp and bright now quite frequently held tears, and there was a woebegone look on her deeply-wrinkled face.

她那雙曾經那麼銳利、那麼明亮的眼睛,現在卻常常含着眼淚,她那佈滿皺紋的臉上顯出一副愁眉苦臉的神色。

Source: American Elementary School English 5

The boy's real name was Romeo, but everyone called him Lamp-Wick, for he was long and thin and had a woebegone look about him.

這個男孩的真名叫羅梅奧,可大家都叫他“小燈芯”,因爲他又高又瘦,愁眉苦臉的。

Source: The Adventures of Pinocchio

She did not tell them that it was utter boredom, bewilderment at actually being a mother and, most of all, the absence of Ashley that made her look so woebegone.

她沒有告訴他們說,那是因爲她對於做母親一事感到非常厭煩和十分困惱,最重要的是因爲艾希禮走了,才使她顯得這親愁苦不堪。

Source: Gone with the Wind

He looked woebegone and yet ridiculous, like a man who has fallen into the water with all his clothes on, and, being rescued from death, frightened still, feels that he only looks a fool.

他的樣子悽苦不堪,但又那麼滑稽,好象一個穿得衣冠齊楚而失足落水的人被打撈上來以後仍然心懷餘悸,生怕別人拿他當笑話看。

Source: The Moon and Sixpence (Condensed Version)

Puncturing her tire near Summer Street, and it being mended while she sat very woebegone in that pretty churchyard, she saw to her astonishment, a door open opposite and the younger Emerson man come out.

她在夏街附近刺破了輪胎, 當她坐在那個漂亮的教堂墓地裏非常憂鬱地修理輪胎時, 她驚訝地看到對面有一扇門打開, 年輕的愛默生男人走了出來。

Source: The Room with a View (Part Two)

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