“unwhelmed”在英语中的释义

adjective

1. Not engulfed or submerged; (figuratively) not overcome with emotion.

   • 1872, William Watkiss Lloyd, The History of Sicily to the Athenian War; with Elucidations of the Sicilian Odes of Pindar, London: John Murray, Book 2, Chapter 6 “To Hiero of Syracuse (Second Pythian Ode),” p. 291, For I, like the cork above a net, whilst the other tackle plies the sea-toil deep below, am still unwhelmed by the brine.
   • 1915, Ludwig Lewisohn (translator), Charlemagne’s Hostage, Act II, in The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann, New York: B.W. Huebsch, Volume 5, p. 300, […] The old man with the look of one Drowning, who gave thy freedom unto thee— ’Tis he still breathing, still unwhelmed, who crosses Thy path once more to-day.

verb

1. simple past and past participle of unwhelm