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melancholy 【melancholy】adj.忧郁During the Romantic period it was fashionable in literature to have a melancholy outlook on the world.浪漫时期，文学界流行悲观的世界观。

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['melənkɑːli] 
melancholya constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
Melancholy is beyond sad: as a noun or an adjective, it's a word for the gloomiest of spirits.
Being melancholy means that you're overcome in sorrow, wrapped up in sorrowful thoughts. The word started off as a noun for deep sadness, from a rather disgusting source. Back in medieval times, people thought that secretions of the body called "humors" determined their feelings, so a depressed person was thought to have too much of the humor known as melancholy — literally "black bile" secreted from the spleen. Fortunately, we no longer think we're ruled by our spleens, and that black bile has been replaced by another color of sorrow: the "blues."
All forms of 'melancholy' will appear on average once every 196 pages.melancholy

Front	melancholy
Pron	['melənkɑːli]
Back	【melancholy】 adj.忧郁 During the Romantic period it was fashionable in literature to have a melancholy outlook on the world. 浪漫时期，文学界流行悲观的世界观。
Vocab	melancholya constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed Melancholy is beyond sad: as a noun or an adjective, it's a word for the gloomiest of spirits. Being melancholy means that you're overcome in sorrow, wrapped up in sorrowful thoughts. The word started off as a noun for deep sadness, from a rather disgusting source. Back in medieval times, people thought that secretions of the body called "humors" determined their feelings, so a depressed person was thought to have too much of the humor known as melancholy — literally "black bile" secreted from the spleen. Fortunately, we no longer think we're ruled by our spleens, and that black bile has been replaced by another color of sorrow: the "blues." All forms of 'melancholy' will appear on average once every 196 pages. melancholy

Melancholy Depressed Noun Word Thought Melənkɑːli Adj.忧郁 Romantic