英语单词 | wistful |
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英美音标 | ['wistfəl] |
中文释义 | adj.渴望的,想望的 |
vocab简明 | Only one letter separates the two words, but "wishful" is having hope for something, and wistful is having sadness or melancholy about something. "Wist" isn't even a word that's used anymore, but you can still be wistful. |
vocab扩展 | People who appear wistful often show a longing for something or a look of serious reflection. One way to describe the adjective wistful is as the sad appearance of someone looking back and thinking "if only..." A thoughtful or pensive mood centered on something good in the past that is missed or something not so good in the present that could have been better "if only" something had gone differently — these things make for a wistful outlook. |
真题原句 | Instead of casting a wistful glance backward at all the species we've left in the dust I.Q.-wise, it implicitly asks what the real costs of our own intelligence might be. |
柯林斯星级 | ★☆☆☆☆ |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词](因求而不得)失意的,伤感的,惆怅的 Someone who is wistful is rather sad because they want something and know that they cannot have it.
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来源 | 2009.0 |
Tags: 单词::2009
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