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dumps

/duhmps/US // dʌmps //UK // (dʌmps) //

倾倒,倾销,转储,倾覆

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a depressed state of mind: to be in the dumps over money problems.

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Examples

  • Beat the Blahs What causes this wintertime down-in-the-dumps attitude?

  • In the books, Cersei gets very down in the dumps, starts putting on weight, and hits the bottle hard.

  • Local newspapers carried accounts of starving Negroes swarming over garbage dumps, even eating the clay from the river bluffs.

  • Governor of Louisiana Bobby Jindal dumps on Barack Obama right on the White House lawn.

  • Just when spirits are lowest, sometimes, we look to sky and see giant flock of dumps soaring together overhead.

  • If she could laugh like that, he need not stay in the dumps.

  • If he couldn't get what he wanted at the Morrises', he went out and stole, or visited the dumps at the back of the town.

  • Dumps were made at frequent intervals along the front containing all the materials required for consolidation.

  • The men are splendid—their cheeriness comes up bubbling whenever the occasion calls for the dumps.

  • Again the atmosphere of dignified dumps and dingy sulkiness.