一个人的心情不可能每天都一样，多多少少会有着变化。不管开心与否，也不要急着给它们下定义。
一些进化心理学家指出，有六种情绪（快乐、悲伤、恐惧、反感、生气、惊讶）是所有人有完全一样的表达方式，因此，这几种基本情绪就代表了堆叠出我们整个情绪生活的几种积木。
如果你们用这种方式来看情绪，情绪看起来就会像简单的反射：它是由外在困境所触发，它是与生俱来的，它是用来保护我们不受伤害的。
不过，在秋天里，由于环境的变化，总是让人产生一些负面的情绪，从混混欲睡、心烦意乱，到除了郁闷不堪，甚至心生绝望。 这些emontions其实有相应的英文表达的。
1、Mood 心境，情绪
通常，mood属于一个中性词，相对比较客观。在《柯林斯英语词典》里，mood更多时候是指一种feeling，如：
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.
因此，要具体表达情绪变化或状况时，要在其前加上修饰性形容词，如bad或foul等。
例句：
Today I am in bad mood.
今天我心情不好。
When he came back, he was in a foul mood.
他回来时，心情糟透了。
I am in no mood for joking.
我没心情开玩笑。
（注意mood的多种用法, in no mood 表示“没心情”，是个固定短语。）
不过，与in no mood的搭配类似， in a mood也直接表示“坏心情；坏脾气”， 如：
If someone is in a mood, the way they are behaving shows that they are feeling angry and impatient.
例句：
She was obviously in a mood.
她显然情绪不佳。
2、Upset 心烦的；不安的
Upset一词更多地时候描述的是有让人不愉的事情发生后，人们产生的相应感觉。如《柯林斯英语词典》的解释：
If you are upset, you are unhappy or disappointed because something unpleasant has happened to you.
例句：
I got upset when I heard the news.
当听到这消息的时候，我感到不安。
After she died I felt very, very upset.
她去世之后，我非常非常难过。
特别是当有事情让人心情不好，心烦意乱时，upset就更为合适来表达了。
If something upsets you, it makes you feel worried or unhappy.
例句：
The whole incident had upset me and my fiancee terribly...
整个事件搞得我和未婚妻都心烦意乱。
She warned me not to say anything to upset him...
她警告我不要说任何让他不高兴的话。
3、angry 生气
Angry作为一种负面情绪，只是针对一些让人不愉快的事物而产生的反应，而程度并不是很激烈。如《柯林斯英语词典》的解释：
When you are angry, you feel strong dislike or impatience about something.
例句：
She had been very angry at the person who stole her new bike...
她很生气有人偷走了她的新自行车。
Are you angry with me for some reason?.
你是因为什么原因在生我的气吗？
同时，作为一个形容词，更多地是展现这种情绪：
Sarah came forward with a tight and angry face.
萨拉走上前来，紧绷着脸，怒气冲冲。
在口语中，比angry程度更高的词是mad，即
If you say that someone is mad, you mean that they are very angry.
例句：
You're just mad at me because I don't want to go.
因为我不想去，你就对我火冒三丈。
I'm pretty mad about it, I can tell you.
告诉你，我对这件事感到非常恼火。
4、indignant 愤怒的、愤慨的
这个词是在人受到了强烈的刺激之后产生的一种负责情绪。 如《柯林斯英语词典》的解释：
If you are indignant, you are shocked and angry, because you think that something is unjust or unfair.
例句：
He is indignant at suggestions that they were secret agents.
有人暗示他们可能是特务，这让他非常气愤。
MPs were indignant that the government had not consulted them...
政府没有事先征求他们的意见,下院议员们感到很愤怒。
She was very indignant at the way she had been treated.
她对于自己受到的待遇大为光火。
5、Despair 绝望，使人绝望的人或事物
Despair这个词就偏向极端的负面情绪（feeling）了。 《柯林斯英语词典》中的解释是：
Despair is the feeling that everything is wrong and that nothing will improve.
例句：
Despair overwhelmed me.
绝望控制了我.
She was in the depth of despair.
她当时正处于最绝望的时候。
在作动词里，despair让人有一种“无可挽回”的感觉：
If you despair, you feel that everything is wrong and that nothing will improve.
例句：
He does despair at much of the press criticism.
面对媒体的诸多批评他的确感到绝望。
而despair of 表示“丧失信心；对....绝望”，是常用短语， 如：
If you despair of something, you feel that there is no hope that it will happen or improve. If you despair of someone, you feel that there is no hope that they will improve.
例句：
He wished to earn a living through writing but despaired of doing so.
他想通过写作来谋生，不过他对此不抱希望。
6、Devastated 在感情上（精神上、财务上等）压垮
Devasted一词更多地是指负面情绪彻底占领人的意识，如其动词devaste所表达的一样，damage very badly or destroy totally.
例句：
The old man is definitely devastated.
这老人完全崩溃了。
Bishop Daly said he was devastated by news of the Cardinal's death.
戴利主教说他听到红衣主教去世的消息后感到极为震惊和难过。
Teresa was devastated, her dreams shattered.
特雷莎伤心欲绝——她的梦想彻底破灭了。
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