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Usually 'be cast down' — feel sad and without hope. A literary, old-fashioned phrase; you meet it in the Bible and older books. The everyday relative is the adjective 'downcast'.
沮喪、垂頭喪氣(文學用法)
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cast downverb
- 1
To make (a person) discouraged or dejected.
- Disclose it not to the others, for none can strive with Fate and gain the victory, and it would but cast down their hearts. But it is fitting we be ready against evil hap.
- 2
To overthrow, to defeat or bring to ruin.
- 3
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cast, down.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。