downbeat 的 2 个定义
Music.
- the downward stroke of a conductor's arm or baton indicating the first or accented beat of a measure.
- the first beat of a measure.
- gloomy or depressing; pessimistic: Hollywood movies seldom have downbeat endings.
downbeat 近义词
pessimistic
更多downbeat例句
- Some may see the decidedly not-tragic ending of The Man Who Sold His Skin as a copout, a betrayal of the story’s more downbeat undertones.
- Mark Hamrick, senior economic analyst for Bankrate, welcomed the news, especially after months of downbeat economic trends.
- The response from Simple customers has been predictably downbeat.
- Why did the Russian Ministry of Culture help to finance such a downbeat portrait of contemporary Russia?
- Most affecting is his romance with a cute, downbeat girl inmate named Andrea.
- Full of lively, comic storytelling and resonant in theme—youth ends; how sad—it casts a downbeat and very of-the-moment mood.
- Stanley Crouch's culture pieces have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, Vogue, Downbeat, the New Yorker, and more.
- Stanley Crouch's culture pieces have appeared in Harper's, the New York Times, Vogue, Downbeat, the New Yorker, and more.