melancholic

英 [ˌmelənˈkɒlɪk]

美 [ˌmelənˈkɑːlɪk]

adj.  忧郁的; 忧郁症的
n.  忧郁症患者

复数：melancholics　

BNC.34412 / COCA.24867

牛津词典

adj.

• 忧郁的；忧郁症的
  feeling or expressing sadness, especially when the sadness is like an illness

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 忧郁的;忧伤的
  If you describe someone or something asmelancholic, you mean that they are very sad.
  1. The night was as melancholic as his mood.
     夜晚和他的心情一样阴郁。
  2. ...his gentle, melancholic songs.
     他温柔而伤感的歌曲
  3. Amelancholicis someone who is melancholic.
     忧郁的人
  4. ...a self-made man, energetic and obsessively orderly, a histrionic exhibitionist and a melancholic.
     一个白手起家、精力充沛且强迫性讲求整齐的人，一个装腔作势、好出风头的人，一个忧郁伤感的人

英英释义

noun

• someone subject to melancholia
  Synonym:melancholiac

adj

• characterized by or causing or expressing sadness
  1. growing more melancholy every hour
  2. her melancholic smile
  3. we acquainted him with the melancholy truth
  Synonym:melancholy

双语例句

• Tammuz: A Promethean Lineage. Brutes reborn in the womb of the earth and stricken with an excess of melancholic humour. Their Progenitor was a Babylonian Golem.
  塔穆兹：活尸的世系之一。他们在大地的子宫中重生，体质以黑胆汁为主。其先祖为巴比伦的魔偶。
• This one was poignant, almost melancholic, as kilar reminisced about a company he transformed from an empty office suite in 2007 into one that has attracted more than 3 million paying subscribers and generated$ 700 million in revenue in 2012.
  他把这家公司从2007年一个空无一物的办公套间做成一个吸引了超过300万付费用户，2012年收入达到7亿美元的庞然大物。
• I intend to do everything I can to prove him wrong, or at least to fight that melancholic tendency with every tool in the shed.
  我打算尽自己所能证明他是错的，或至少用尽一切手段对抗忧郁倾向。
• Maximilian Hecker describes his music as "melancholic pop hymns".
  麦斯米兰形容他们的音乐是“忧郁的流行赞美诗”。
• A Melancholic Screen Poet
  忧郁气质的银幕诗人
• And each of them, to my eye, looks exactly as it did when the rollout began& 13,000 ubiquitous and faintly melancholic time-capsule museums of the last best American decade.
  在我看来，每一家都和它最初的样子差不多&13000个无处不在、略带忧郁的时光胶囊博物馆，封存着上一个美国的黄金十年的样子。
• As for temperament, the sanguine temperament, phlegmatic temperament and choleric temperament are positively related to resilience. All the three kind have a positive prediction towards resilience. The melancholic temperament indicates negative prediction to resiliency.
  在气质上，多血质、粘液质、胆汁质与心理弹性显著正相关，它们对心理弹性都有正向预测作用，抑郁质对心理弹性有负向预测作用。
• John Donne the Melancholic
  忧郁的诗人&约翰多恩
• Dirges so melancholic that they would scorch you.
  挽歌非常忧沉，会将你灼伤。
• The night was as melancholic as his mood.
  夜晚和他的心情一样阴郁。