2[singular]SAD/UNHAPPY a person or situation that stops you feeling happy 令人沮丧的人[情况]
The weather was a bit of a downer.
这天气有点让人沮丧。
3be on a downer informalBritish EnglishBrESAD/UNHAPPY to be sad or experiencing a series of sad events 沮丧;经历一连串伤心事
What’s up with Ruth? She’s been on a downer all week.
露丝怎么啦?她整个星期都郁郁寡欢。
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be on a downer• Leeds can usually handleteams who are on a downer when we play them.
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downer• Otherwise, this trip begins on a downer.• Sure I want to play good, because the season there last year was a downer for me.• Together they build an impressivewall of evidence - but their successcarries a big downer.• The music, though laughable, isn't the maindowner.• She had taken a handful of downers with her whisky around 10 a.m. and had woken up in hospital.• I was off for a week which is alright, but during that week I was heavily doped on downers.• If the Marx Brothers had made a surrealisticcomedy while on downers, this would be it.• The book is a realdowner.• Unitedwon twice away last month at Bristol Rovers and Wolves, while Birmingham are on a real downer.