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ennui

/ahn-wee, ahn-wee; French ahn-nwee/US // ɑnˈwi, ˈɑn wi; French ɑ̃ˈnwi //UK // (ˈɒnwiː, French ɑ̃nɥi) //

忧郁症,厌烦,忧郁,厌恶

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom: The endless lecture produced an unbearable ennui.

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Examples

  • Bored teenagers dealing with the world at large may have more devices in-hand now, but that tumult of emotions and ennui remains the same.

  • We meet characters who are going about their days and feeling, you know, normal levels of ennui.

  • Historically, with the possible exception of cars, Americans have approached made-in-America shopping with a large degree of ennui.

  • The ennui of endless days, week and months at home is understandable.

  • Consumed and eventually disgorged, Pierre is restored to his loving parents, his ennui banished.

  • The Great American Novel became more concerned with sexual shenanigans and suburban ennui, or rehashing World War II.

  • Even with all her comforts and a constant, tugging ennui, Mei knows the risks that she faces as an ernai.

  • The shenanigans of Intimacy will shake any jaded theater fan from nudity ennui.

  • Gabe tried to kick his postmodern, adolescent sense of ennui (a “lame” feeling) through members of the opposite sex (“dames”).

  • It was not a condition of life which fitted her, and she could see in it but an appalling and hopeless ennui.

  • It combats ennui, lassitude, and intolerable vacuity, soothing the nerves and diverting attention from self.

  • The sight of them not only fills me with ennui, but I have no intention of presenting your comic papers with material.

  • She's handsome yet, but her muscles are getting that loose look and her eyes are bottomless pits of ennui.

  • Ennui is a word one hears constantly; if it rains toute le monde est triste.