sober

1. ADJ When you are sober, you are not drunk. 清醒的

He'd been drunk when I arrived. Now he was sober. 我到的時候他已經喝醉了。現在他清醒了。

2. ADJ A sober person is serious and thoughtful. 嚴肅的

We are now far more sober and realistic. 我們現在嚴肅多了，也現實多了。

It was a room filled with sad, sober faces. 這是一個滿是憂傷和嚴肅麪孔的房間。

3. soberlyADV 嚴肅地

"There's a new development," he said soberly. “有新的進展，”他嚴肅地說。

4. ADJ Sober colours and clothes are plain and rather dull. (顔色或衣服) 素淡的

He dresses in sober grey suits. 他穿著一套素淨的灰色衣服。

5. soberlyADV 素淡地[ADV with v]

She saw Ellis, soberly dressed in a well-cut dark suit. 她看見了埃利斯，素淡地穿著一套裁剪郃躰的黑西服。

6. →see also sobering