frown的意思|frown的解释-里氏词典

frown [fraun]

n. 皱眉

vi. 皱眉头

vt. 皱眉表示

The teacher frowned angrily at the noisy class.
老师对那班吵吵嚷嚷的学生皱起了眉头。
The frown on the man's face showed that he was displeased.
那人皱着眉头，面露不悦。
She looked up from her exam paper with a worried frown.
她看完自己的试卷愁眉不展地抬起头来。

frown

[ noun ]

a facial expression of dislike or displeasure

<noun.communication>

[ verb ]

look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval

<verb.body>

glower

lour

lower

Frown \Frown\, v. t.
To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval;
to rebuke with a look; as, frown the impudent fellow into
silence.

Frown \Frown\, n.
1. A wrinkling of the face in displeasure, rebuke, etc.; a
sour, severe, or stern look; a scowl.

His front yet threatens, and his frowns command.
--Prior.

Her very frowns are fairer far
Than smiles of other maidens are. --H.
Coleridge.

2. Any expression of displeasure; as, the frowns of
Providence; the frowns of Fortune.

Frown \Frown\ (froun), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Frowned} (fround);
p. pr. & vb. n. {Frowning}.] [OF. froignier, F. frogner, in
se refrogner, se renfrogner, to knit the brow, to frown;
perh. of Teutonic origin; cf. It. in frigno wrinkled,
frowning, Prov. It. frignare to cringe the face, to make a
wry face, dial. Sw. fryna to make a wry face,]
1. To contract the brow in displeasure, severity, or
sternness; to scowl; to put on a stern, grim, or surly
look.

The frowning wrinkle of her brow. --Shak.

2. To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with
disfavor or threateningly; to lower; as, polite society
frowns upon rudeness.

The sky doth frown and lower upon our army. --Shak.

But as they heard me speak, there was a frown of doubt. 'You are Jewish?' the driver asked. 'No, I'm British.' 'Oh,' he said.
Lenders also may frown on the possibility the unions will dump UAL Corp.
Mr. Eastwood stares at the dung, "mucked out" from a nearby stable and deposited in his path. "Farmer malpractice," he says with a frown.
Jacoby & Meyers says the commercials don't constitute an endorsement of the firm by the lawyers; many state bars frown on advertisements featuring endorsements by celebrities, former clients or lawyers other than those with the firm.
The Saudis frown on shorts.
Indeed, many of these companies now frown on the very word 'career', preferring instead the vaguer euphemism 'personal development'. Yet the task for which top managers are being groomed - or grooming themselves - is increasingly onerous.
"If you went to Canada or Sweden, I guess I frown on that," he says.
Yet the world seems to do little more than frown at China while its hard-line Communist government zealously smothers human rights.
The rest are largely Russians who frown on secession.
But the TV networks frown on performers abruptly turning into salesmen.
People in the rest of the world still frown on stirring up excessive litigation.
Newton once observed, With learned frown, That what went up Had to come down.
The yellow and black signs show a frown at the beginning of the construction and become happier as the motorist approaches the end.

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