| 单词 | saturnine |
| 例句 | saturnine adjective 1.•a saturnine temperament:gloomy, somber, melancholy, moody, lugubrious, dour, glum, morose, unsmiling, humorless. ANT cheerful. 2.•his saturnine good looks:swarthy, dark, dark-skinned, dark-complexioned | mysterious, mercurial, moody, brooding.WORD NOTE saturnine Saturnine, although it suffers some from romance-novel overuse, is much preferable to the slightly derogatory swarthy, if circumstances permit. Rochester (of Jane Eyre) is saturnine (possibly even the Platonic ideal of saturnine); Seth Starkadder (of Cold Comfort Farm) is swarthy. (It's never a good idea to use swarthy as a shorthand ethnic description.) — EMConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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