a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine
filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted" 同义词：gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited,
directed downward; "a downcast glance"
例句与用法
1.
He felt very strange, very humiliated, very downcast . 他觉得很奇怪，很耻辱，很颓丧。
2.
He was not at all downcast . 他一点也不气馁。
3.
Be not downcast . 别垂头丧气。
4.
It looked on downcast faces, the images of mournful hearts . 人们脸上也是阴沉沉的，愁眉不展，反映着凄楚的心情。
5.
Stubbs the plasterer was much downcast at this dreadful edict . 泥水匠斯塔布斯对这道使人敬畏的“法令”十分沮丧。
6.
Most of them walked with downcast eyes or staring blankly straight in front of them . 大多数人都垂下了眼皮或是直瞪着两眼向前走。
7.
Why, in my time, a young woman would have been all blushes and downcast glances . 嗨，在我一生中，看到少女们都是羞羞答答目不斜视的。
8.
Abruptly he sat upright in his chair and, with an effort of will, expunged his downcast mood . 突然，他在椅子上直起身来，努力赶走沮丧的情绪。
9.
According to hearsay, eleanor felt a little downcast that she had to support herself in the white house . 据传说，使埃莉诺感到有点泄气的是，她在白宫不得不自己养活自己。
10.
No wonder that on media island they are downcast 无怪他们在媒体市场上心灰意冷。
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