mope
verb [intransitive]Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they mope | |
| he / she / it mopes | |
| past simple moped | |
| past participle moped | |
| -ing form moping |
to spend your time doing nothing and feeling sorry for yourself 悶悶不樂；自怨自艾 Extra ExamplesIt would benefit no one if we all sat moping for the next week. 如果我們下周都坐着悶悶不樂，對誰都沒有好處。 You should build on the little triumphs rather than moping about disasters. 你應該建立在小勝利的基礎上，而不是對災難悶悶不樂。
Word Originmid 16th cent. (the early noun sense being ‘fool or simpleton’): perhaps of Scandinavian origin; compare with Swedish dialect mopa ‘to sulk’.