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- bad-tempered and sulky脾气坏的, 愠怒的; 郁郁寡欢的, 阴郁的:
a sullen pout
一副愠怒撅嘴的样子。
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- (of the sky) full of dark clouds(天空)乌云密布的:
a sullen sunless sky.
乌云密布的天空。
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- (especially of water) slow-moving(尤指水流)缓慢的:
rivers in sullen, perpetual flood.
水流缓慢、长期泛滥的河流。
派生词
sullenly
adverbsullenness
noun词源
Middle English (in the senses 'solitary, averse to company', and 'unusual'): from Anglo-Norman French sulein, from sol 'sole'.