| 释义 |
blahs, n. pl. slang (orig. and chiefly U.S.).|blɑːz|
[f. blah a. 2 (perh. infl. by blues).]
Depression, despondency, low condition, esp. of spirits. Usu. the blahs.
1969Life 12 Dec. 40/1 The radicals are suffering from a case of the blahs, the liberals are frustrated. 1970Sunday Tel. (Brisbane) 22 Feb. 92/1 Thursday was a day for the ‘Blahs’—a lovely descriptive American expression for feeling washed out and down in the dumps and cranky. 1974Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 25 July, I've got the Monday blahs. 1978Detroit Free Press 5 Mar. d12/4 A good haircut, maybe some streaking to lift the winter blahs. 1982Fortune 5 Apr. 54/2 The town's 4,800 first-class casino-hotel rooms are a long way from the 10,000 needed to attract the big conventions that would cure the off-season blahs. |