downcast

adj.

1. 向下的；低垂的
   looking down
   1. Eyes downcast, she continued eating.
      她低垂双眼，不停地吃。
2. 悲哀的；沮丧的；垂头丧气的
   sad or depressed
   1. A group of downcast men stood waiting for food.
      一群人垂头丧气地站在那儿等着吃饭。

1. ADJ-GRADED 沮丧的;悲观的
   If you are downcast, you are feeling sad and without hope.
   1. Barbara looked increasingly downcast as defeat loomed.
      当败象已呈时，芭芭拉看上去越来越沮丧。
   2. ...a glum, downcast expression.
      忧郁、沮丧的表情
2. ADJ (眼睛通常因难过或尴尬)向下看的，低垂的
   If your eyes are downcast, you are looking towards the ground, usually because you are feeling sad or embarrassed.
   1. She was silent, her eyes downcast.
      她一言不发，两眼低垂。

1. Barbara looked increasingly downcast as defeat loomed.
   当败象已呈时，芭芭拉看上去越来越沮丧。
2. She was silent, her eyes downcast.
   她一言不发，两眼低垂。
3. Since their defeat last time, the enemy have become really downcast.
   自从上次遭到挫败，敌军变得很颓靡。
4. What about that downcast man on the park bench?
   坐在公园长登上的那个一脸沮丧的男人怎么样？
5. Why is your face downcast?
   你为什么变了脸色呢？
6. Using the particular methods of Person would require a downcast on the objects returned by next().
   使用Person的特定方法需要对next（）返回的对象进行向下转换。
7. For he looked upon the bowed head, and the downcast eyes, and upraised hand, and thought, 'I have felt it; and why should I not avow it in behalf of this unfriended, broken man!
   因为他看到那搭拉的脑袋、低垂的眼睛和抬起的手，心中想道，我感觉到这点；我为什么不为这位孤立无援、伤心失望的人认错呢？
8. Of course, Indians are not always downcast by the size of their country.
   当然，印度人也不总是为自己国家的规模感到沮丧。
9. But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus.
   但那安慰丧气之人的神，借着提多来安慰了我们。
10. Cameron seemed unusually downcast and taciturn.
    卡梅伦似乎特别沮丧，沉默寡言。
11. Don't be too downcast about it.
    对这事不要太垂头丧气的。
12. A life of failure has made her downcast.
    失败的生活使她沮丧。
13. Ashamed of his mistake, he stood with downcast eyes.
    羞于他的错误，他眼睛垂视地站着。
14. When I was told recently by someone that they had "liked" my column I felt downcast.
    最近，有人告诉我他们“喜欢”我的专栏，我登时感觉情绪低落。
15. Then she went her way and ate something, and her face was no longer downcast.
    于是妇人走去吃饭，面上再不带愁容了。
16. He stood still with his eyes downcast.
    他静静地站着，双目望着地面。
17. I thought you were looking a little downcast this morning.
    今天早晨，我觉得你看上去有点沮丧。
18. Chu Kuei-ying did not reply, but sat with crimson cheeks and downcast eyes.
    朱桂英涨红了脸不回答，眼睛看在地下。
19. He felt very strange, very humiliated, very downcast.
    他觉得很奇怪，很耻辱，很颓丧。
20. Sonya, with downcast eyes, listened in silence to the countess's cruel words, and did not understand what was expected of her.
    索尼娅默默无言，低垂着眼帘，谛听伯爵夫人的残酷的话语，她不明白到底对她有什么要求。
21. He looked so downcast I took pity on him.
    他那十分沮丧的样子令我产生了怜悯。
22. The little girl keep her eyes downcast when the headmaster talk to her.
    校长同小女孩谈话时，她一双眼睛始终低垂著。
23. Why, in my time, a young woman would have been all blushes and downcast glances.
    嗨，在我一生中，看到少女们都是羞羞答答目不斜视的。
24. Most of them walked with downcast eyes or staring blankly straight in front of them.
    大多数人都垂下了眼皮或是直瞪着两眼向前走。
25. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me.
    我心想念这些，就在里面忧闷。
26. I am far too apt to be downcast.
    我是多麽容易消极悲观；
27. Abruptly he sat upright in his chair and, with an effort of will, expunged his downcast mood.
    突然，他在椅子上直起身来，努力赶走沮丧的情绪。
28. This was a shy and insecure girl, whose guilt and shame were clearly written on her downcast face.
    这是一个羞涩不安的姑娘，那些罪恶和羞辱都清楚写在她的沮丧的脸上。
29. The boy was downcast and introspective.
    那男孩垂头丧气，耽于自省。
30. Even lewis, that most ebullient of men, looked downcast.
    甚至刘易斯，那个最为热情洋溢的人，也露出了垂头丧气的样子。

noun

1. a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine

adj

1. filled with melancholy and despondency
   1. gloomy at the thought of what he had to face
   2. gloomy predictions
   3. a gloomy silence
   4. took a grim view of the economy
   5. the darkening mood
   6. lonely and blue in a strange city
   7. depressed by the loss of his job
   8. a dispirited and resigned expression on her face
   9. downcast after his defeat
   10. feeling discouraged and downhearted

   Synonym:    gloomygrimbluedepresseddispiriteddown(p)downhearteddown in the mouthlowlow-spirited

2. directed downward
   1. a downcast glance