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

• 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。
• I must not be cast down.
  我绝对不能被压倒。
• The circumstances were all against Joe, but he was not cast down.
  所有的情况都不利于乔，但他并不沮丧。
• The enemy intruders cast down their weapons and surrendered.
  入侵的敌人丢掉武器投降了。
• He was cast down by the sad news.
  这悲伤的消息使他情绪低落。
• Moore listened at first with his eyes cast down, but soon he furtively raised them.
  穆尔起先是低挂着眼睛谛听着，可是，过了一会儿，他悄悄地抬起眼来。
• The manager cast down his newspaper when he saw the quotation of his speech.
  当经理看见报上引用了他的讲话时，他把报纸扔掉了。
• 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。
• Because, the proletariat to cast down the bourgeoisie has not possible, why?
  因为，无产阶级要打倒资产阶级已经不可能，为什么？
• 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。