cast down

英 [kɑːst daʊn]

美 [kæst daʊn]

抛下，丢下; 降低，使向下; 使沮丧

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB-PASSIVE 使沮丧;使伤心;使忧愁
  If someoneis cast down bysomething, they are sad or worried because of it.
  1. I am not cast down by it because I believe in the fundamental strength of the business...
     这件事并没有使我灰心，因为我相信企业的深厚根基。
  2. Ever since I saw the diary excerpts I've been cast down.
     自从看到日记摘录，我就一直非常沮丧。

英英释义

verb

• lower someone's spirits
  1. These news depressed her
  2. The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her
  Synonym:depressdejectget downdismaydispiritdemoralizedemoralise

双语例句

• The enemy cast down their weapons.
  敌人扔掉武器。
• In this process of dissolution, the monadically closed-off subjectivity of self-assertive and mutually objectifying individuals is dispossessed and cast down into the abyss.
  在这个溶解的过程中，主观自负的封闭主体性和相互客体化的个体被剥夺和并塑像下来进入深渊。
• Anyone would be cast down by such news as that.
  像那样的消息会使任何人感到沮丧。
• And he called for all his friends, and said to them: Sleep is gone from my eyes, and I am fallen away, and my heart is cast down for anxiety.
  便将他的诸位朋友叫来，对他们说：「睡眠离开了我眼睛，愁思齐集在我的心头。
• They cast down their load and began to open the grave.
  他们把车上的东西卸下来，开始挖开那座坟墓。
• Princess Marya came closer to them, her eyes cast down and her feet tripping over her gown.
  玛丽亚公爵小姐垂下眼帘，连衣裙绊脚，走近他们。
• I am not cast down by it because I believe in the fundamental strength of the business
  这件事并没有使我灰心，因为我相信企业的深厚根基。
• They cried unto the Lord forever, and lifted up their eyes forever, they were cast down forever.
  他们永远呼唤着主，永远举目远眺，他们永远被降落下来。
• Men of high status were cast down.
  身居高位的要人遭到了贬黜。
• Ever since I saw the diary excerpts I've been cast down.
  自从看到日记摘录，我就一直非常沮丧。