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If you are dejected, you look and feel thrown down: unhappy, disappointed, and without much lift for a moment. It is stronger than “a bit sad” and quieter than angry. You read it on a face, in slumped shoulders, after a loss, a hard no, or bad news. It is a useful adjective, a little more than down; everyday speech also says down, gutted, or fed up, depending how sharp the feeling is. A dejected team, a dejected sigh, a dejected look. It describes the person or the look, not the action (that job belongs to dejectedly).
沮喪的;垂頭喪氣的
組成deject + -ed. Deject is de- (“down”) + -ject (“throw”), from the same Latin family as “a casting down.”
同家族的字
- dejectedlythe adverb: in a dejected way
- dejectionthe noun: the thrown-down feeling
- rejectsame Latin -ject, “throw”
- ejectsame Latin -ject, “throw”
原始詞典資料2 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。
dejectedadj/dɪˈdʒɛktəd/
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Sad and dispirited.
- He looked dejected after hearing the bad news.
- The team sat dejected in the locker room after their loss.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
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。