mood

1. N-COUNT Your mood is the way you are feeling at a particular time. If you are in a good mood, you feel cheerful. If you are in a bad mood, you feel angry and impatient. 情緒

He is clearly in a good mood today. 顯然他今天心情不錯(cuò)。

Lily was in one of her aggressive moods. 莉莉又在咄咄逼人了。

2. PHRASE If you say that you are in the mood for something, you mean that you want to do it or have it. If you say that you are in no mood to do something, you mean that you do not want to do it or have it. 有/無(wú)心情 (做某事)

After a day of air and activity, you should be in the mood for a good meal. 在戶外活動(dòng)了一天，你應(yīng)該想好好喫一頓。

3. N-COUNT If someone is in a mood, the way they are behaving shows that they are feeling angry and impatient. 心情不好

She was obviously in a mood. 顯然她心情不好。

4. N-SING Themood of a group of people is the way that they think and feel about an idea, event, or question at a particular time. (群躰的) 想法

The government seemed to be in tune with the popular mood. 政府似乎與公衆(zhòng)的想法一致。

5. N-COUNT The mood of a place is the general impression that you get of it. 氣氛

First set the mood with music. 首先用音樂制造氣氛。

6. N-COUNT a category of the verb or verbal inflections that expresses semantic and grammatical differences, including such forms as the indicative, subjunctive, and imperative 語(yǔ)氣(如陳述語(yǔ)氣、虛擬語(yǔ)氣等)[grammar]