Sullen

sullen







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a. (形容詞 adjective)



          1.    不高興的,繃著臉的;慍怒的

                      Susan was sullen in the morning because she hadn't slept well.

                      蘇珊今天早上鬱悶不樂,因為昨晚沒睡好。

          2.    乖戾的

          3.    (天氣)陰沈的

                      This sullen [weather] disagrees with me.

                      遇上這種陰沈的天氣我就感到不舒服。

          4.    (聲音,顏色等)沈悶的

                      The blue eyes were reddened and sullen with weeping.

                      一對碧眼哭得發紅,沒了光輝。

          5.    (水流)停滯的

                      A sullen [stream] winds its way among the trees.

                      一條水流滯緩的小溪蜿蜒流經樹林。









　

"The Best of Youth" takes its chance—almost unheard of, these days—



to [bloom] and [unfurl] like a [novel], 



unfurl

They unfurled the [flag] and let it [flutter] in the wind.



reaching for the kinds of repeated gesture, of memories sown and reaped among friends, that most directors are forced to shed along the way. Moreover, for anybody who still believes that every large, onscreen Italian family is ipso facto a branch of the Corleones, here is the unglamorous cure. Matteo does indeed bump into the Mafia, when he is posted to Palermo, but, 



as a sullen bunch of locals, 



including a child, stand and gaze at a corpse in a slaughterhouse, he shouts, “It’s not a movie!” For a few enfolding hours, you believe him.