单词 | mood |
释义 | mood I. 1. a. < it had taken possession of him again — that indomitable, conquering mood which seemed to give him the right of way wherever he went — O.E.Rölvaag > < sometimes the mood of one player may cause him to change some detail of interpretation — S.E.Wier > < the ox was his companion … and he had walked behind and praised it and cursed it as his mood was — Pearl Buck > b. < in the mood to listen to her — Mary Webb > < the House was, at that time, in no giving mood — T.B.Macaulay > 2. archaic < who, in my mood, I stabbed unto the heart — Shakespeare > 3. a. < our national mood has changed with our fortunes in battle — J.K.Little > < the Indians betrayed their mood by accepting only rifles … and hatchets in payment for their furs — John Mason Brown > b. < a large open room that had the mood of a French commercial outpost somewhere in the tropics — D.W.Dresden > < the emotional mood of the play — H.F.Helvenston > < the mood of the landscape, achieved by the beauty of the evening light — Kenneth Clark > < in this book his mood is doggedly elegiac — Anthony Quinton > c. < the sea in all its moods — W.H.Taylor > < watching land and water, rocks and trees, and their everchanging hues and moods — Richard Semon > Synonyms: < the tense limbs of a body possessed by a single mood of rapt exaltation — Laurence Binyon > < everything was going along smoothly and the men were in a happy mood — H.A.Chippendale > < the disgustingly bilious mood which a nasty night at sea never fails to produce — David Fairchild > < practicality was the prevailing mood after the war — Dixon Wecter > < the normally sedate neighborhood relaxes in holiday mood — American Guide Series: Maryland > humor in this context applies chiefly to a mood resulting from one's special temperament or physical or mental condition at the moment, suggesting a capriciousness or whimsicality < in no humor to be trifled with > < a man of violent humors and yet touching affection > < I would not only consult the interest of the people, but I would cheerfully gratify their humors — Edmund Burke > temper can apply to a mood dominated by a single strong emotion, usually anger when the term is unmodified; when modified by an adjective indicating the controlling emotion, the term indicates any humor manifest in a display of feeling < found his friend in quite a temper > < wake up in a foul temper > < find his boss in a pleasant temper > vein is often used in the sense of mood, usually suggesting greater transitoriness, or of humor but almost devoid of any implication of physical or temperamental cause < the whole is written in a vein of ironic seriousness — H.J.Laski > < be in a jubilant vein after a small triumph > < make a request of a man while he is in an affable and generous vein > II. 1. a. b. 2. a. < the Latin verb has person, tense, number, mood, and voice > b. < the indicative mood > < the imperative mood > < the subjunctive mood > < the optative mood > c. 3. |
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