Moue

 









moue



Y

[moo]

(表示厭惡等的) 噘嘴,怪相,顰蹙



D



–noun 

a pouting grimace. (怪相,鬼臉)





　

And so the illicit [affair] drags on and [on], and you can see Madame Bovary, that indispensable helpmeet of every unhappily married lass, coming around the [corner]. 



lass

–noun 

1. a girl 

or 

young woman, esp. one who is unmarried. 



2. a female sweetheart: a young [lad] and his [lass]. 



Sure enough, she shows up as the hot read at a women's book group where Sarah defends the freedom to choose a satisfying life against a young matron (played with delicious snarkiness by Mary B. McCann) who's appalled [at] the very idea of an adulterous heroine. 



Having made its pitch for life, liberty, and the pursuit of romantic happiness, Little Children takes a sudden [left] turn, gathers itself into a moue of petit bourgeois [dis]approval, and deals out the wages of sin with such zealous overkill, it put me in mind of the nuttily [dis]cordant murder that [de]railed the final scenes of In the Bedroom. 



Freud himself would have found the unmanning of the movie's most damaged "little child" a tad literal-minded. 



petit bourgeois

【法】小資產階級之一分子





4.5 爛人

brogue 

rogue schmuck skunk 

grumpy 

curmudgeon cantankerous 



cad callow Nubile

twerp

nudnik



4.6 爛臉

sourpuss 

sullen dour

scowl 

His wife [scowled] when he came home late again.

glower

No glowering [closeups] or characters skulking in a corner to give the game away. 

Dad [glowers] but doesn't speak. Mom has her eyes [glued] to the TV, where a tape of an old Buffalo Bills game is playing.

Dingy