December 25, 2008

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


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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








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