Sourpuss

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臉色陰沈的人

[souuhr-poos]



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–noun Informal. 

a person having a grouchy (愛抱怨的) disposition (性格) that is often accompanied by a scowling facial expression.  





　

Played by Nicole Kidman, all sculpted cheekbones and blithe venom, Margot could be the dejected, midlife, midlist-career-and-a-busted- marriage-later version of the hyperliterate post-grads in Baumbach's first feature, 1995's Kicking and Screaming—people whose education taught them to parse others' sentences for slights. 



Introduced en route by train to her sister's wedding, Margot initially doesn't seem so bad—although it's an ill omen that the passenger her gangly adolescent son Claude (Zane Pais) mistakes her for is some random sourpuss. 





see scowl 

His wife scowled when he came home late again.



parse

curmudgeon

dingy to feel the dinginess of the place