英語字典

world-weary

W 开头单词

音标发音

  • 英式音标 [ˈwɜːldˌwɪə.ri]
  • 美式音标 [ˈwɝːldˌwɪr.i]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • adj.討厭人世的；厭世的

同根派生

     

英汉例句

    雙語例句

  • You may have been around for a while, but no one wants a jaded, world-weary person working for them.
    您也許已經找了好一段時間了，但沒有人想要一個疲倦不堪、悲觀厭世的人爲自己工作。
  • Rabin sighed, and in his deep, world-weary voice, said, I suppose one does not make peace with ones friends.
    拉賓歎了口氣，用他那低沉、厭世的聲音說道，“我想一個人不會同自己的朋友謀求和平。”
  • Over the past decade or so he has cast a world-weary eye over travel, status and architecture, as well as writing a fine book about philosophers and an excellent meditation on Proust.
    過去十多年來他把厭世的目光投曏過旅行、社會身份和建築諸多領域，寫過有關哲學家們的好書和關於普魯斯特的沉思錄。

    • 權威例句

  • It's sort of this velvety, smooth, world-weary voice that seems to be untouched by time.
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  • He chews on a bamboo shoot and eyes us with world-weary boredom, as if we were tiresome in-laws.
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  • The world-weary argue that greenery was merely a convenient cloak beneath which a cash-strapped government could levy a few more taxes.
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词组短语

    短語

  • be world -weary 悲觀消極;厭世;厭棄人世
  • World -weary quotation 厭世語錄
  • WORLD -WEARY JETSETTERS 世界厭倦重地
  • a world -weary man 厭世者

英英字典

    劍橋英英字典

  • Someone who is world-weary is not enthusiastic about anything, often because they have had too much experience of a particular way of life.

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • A world-weary person no longer feels excited or enthusiastic about anything.