| 词汇 | sadness |
| 释义 | sadnessWord family noun sadness saddo sadironadjective sad saddening saddishverb sadden adverb sadly sad·ness /ˈsædnəs/ ●●○ noun [uncountableU] the state of feeling sad 悲伤，悲痛 SYN unhappiness great/deep sadness She sensed Beth’s deep sadness. 她感觉到了贝丝深深的哀痛。 It was with great sadness that we learned of his death. 我们听到他去世的消息，感到极为悲痛。 There was a touch of sadness in his voice (=he sounded a little sad). 他的声音里含着一丝悲伤。 His relief was tinged with sadness (=he also felt rather sad). 他的欣慰中带着一丝哀伤。 n THESAURUS sadness a sad feeling, caused especially when a happy time is ending, or when you feel sorry about someone else’s unhappiness Charles felt a great sense of sadness and loss. I noticed a little sadness in her eyes. unhappiness the unhappy feeling you have when you are in a very difficult or unpleasant situation, especially when this lasts for a long time After years of unhappiness, she finally decided to leave him. She was a tense, nervous young woman, whose deep unhappiness was obvious to all those around her. You do not know how much pain and unhappiness you have caused. sorrow written the feeling of being very sad, especially because someone has died or because terrible things have happened to you There seemed to be nowhere to go to be alone with her sorrow. His heart was filled with great sorrow after her death. misery great unhappiness, caused especially by living or working in very bad conditions The cold weather is with us again and the misery of the homeless is increasing. Thousands of families were destined to a life of misery. The misery and pain he caused were, for him, merely a measure of his success. despair a feeling of great unhappiness, because very bad things have happened and you have no hope that anything will change At the end of the month, she still had no job and was tired, frustrated, and close to despair. grief great sadness that you feel when someone you love has died He was overcome with grief when his wife died. heartache a strong feeling of great sadness, especially because you miss someone you love She remembered the heartache of the first Christmas spent away from her sons. depression a mental illness that makes someone feel so unhappy that they have no energy or hope for the future, and they cannot live a normal life He slipped into a depression in which he hardly ate or even left his room. despondency formal a feeling of being very unhappy and without hope She felt useless, and this contributed to her despondency. melancholy literary a feeling of sadness, that you feel even though there is no particular reason for it Modigliani expressed his melancholy through his painting. Examples from the Corpus sadness• I feel an aching sadness about Belinda amongst the pine resins and cinnamon smells and the Christmas music.• I felt sadness, despair, and a bitter rage.• I remembered with great sadness all the friends I had left behind.• He writes me about his sadness and loneliness, his hopes and fears, his dreams and plans.• Her eyes were full of sadness.• After her death, Charles felt a great sense of sadness and loss.• New thinking on sadness suggests that it is the result of depressed serotonin levels.• The sadness caused the drinking, not the other way around.• There was no way she knew to fill up the violent sadness that had emptied her. was tinged with sadness• But the joy of birth was tinged with sadness.• But New Zealand's delight was tinged with sadness after opener John Wright's announced his retirement. |
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