Lugubrious

lugubrious







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[loo-goo-bree-uhs, -gyoo-]



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–adjective 

mournful, dismal, or gloomy, esp. in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.  





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lugubrious (adj.), lugubriety, lugubriosity, lugubriousness (nn.) 



The adjective lugubrious means "mournful, gloomy, especially affectedly, exaggeratedly so." 



Functional shift and various suffixes have provided English with the three nouns: lugubriousness and lugubriosity are more frequently encountered; lugubriety may be a nonce (臨時的) word. 



The ponderousness (冗長無味) of each nicely matches the self-conscious gloom of its exaggerated meaning. 



nonce word

(為特殊需要) 臨時造出的詞語





　

Even before it gets this [far], however, the film bogs [down] in the hushed, lugubrious narration of disillusioned newspaperman Jack Burden, who has gone on to work for Willie and is clearly [fated] to be buried along with his bottle of booze. 



hush

使沈默,使安靜





cf. dole

doleful

a doleful [look] on her face. 

pine

Complicating his life is his beautiful contact who pines [after] him with fetishistic ardor

to pine [for] one's home and family.  

Separated by their families, the lovers pined [away].  



gall nettle irk 

rile

Meanwhile, after the community is [riled] by the return of a convicted sex offender (Jackie Earle Haley),

chagrin

She follows the clues, using enormous ingenuity, but when she finally meets the admirer she is [chagrined], because there was nothing there, really, but the game,



wrought

fraught

She had a life fraught [with] hardship.

distraught

A distraught Marie notifies the authorities, but sadly, they find no trace of her beloved husband.

Distraught, she alerts the authorities, but a search reveals nothing.



hemorrhage rupture, profuse discharge, abnormal flow 

hemorrhoid 痔瘡 And I'm up for a hemorrhoid [cream] ad next week.

bedsore

diarrhea

logorrhea flow, discharge



sphincter 括約肌 remove head from sphincter, then drive!

Scalp