| 释义 |
undeˈlighting, ppl. a.
[un-1 10.]
1. Taking no delight or pleasure (in something).
1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 37/1 The vndelityng wil of man to God and hys word. 1798Monthly Mag. VI. 556 Undelighting in so artificial a deception, he would have fallen off in the courage to persevere.
2. Affording no delight or pleasure.
1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 546 What keeps them in slavery under an undelighting habit, but because it would cost them pains to break it? 1984Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Apr. 449/4 Trakl himself, whose cold, undelighting, unhuman speech, with its small, select and poisoned vocabulary, is like no other in German. |
