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Grief English Latin Modern Gravis Source French Grever

正面 4125.grief
英 [griːf]美 [ɡrif]

背面
释义:
n. 悲痛;忧伤;不幸
例句:
1. "He's been arrested for theft and burglary." — "Good grief!"“他因为偷窃和入室盗窃而被逮捕了。”——“我的天哪!”

1. al- "ad-, to" + leg- "depute, send" + -ed.2. => send for sth as evidence, bring forth as evidence.
grief 悲痛来自拉丁语gravis, 重的,沉重,词源同grave, gravity.
griefgrief: [13] ‘Oppressiveness’ is the link between modern English grief and Latin gravis (source of English gravity). The Latin adjective meant ‘heavy, weighty’, and it formed the basis of a verb gravāre ‘weigh upon, oppress’. This passed into Old French as grever ‘cause to suffer, harrass’ (source of English grieve [13]), from which was derived the noun grief or gref ‘suffering, hardship’. Its modern sense, ‘feeling caused by such trouble or hardship, sorrow’, developed in the 14th century.=> grave, gravity, grievegrief (n.)early 13c., "hardship, suffering, pain, bodily affliction," from Old French grief "wrong, grievance, injustice, misfortune, calamity" (13c.), from grever "afflict, burden, oppress," from Latin gravare "make heavy; cause grief," from gravis "weighty" (see grave (adj.)). Meaning "mental pain, sorrow" is from c. 1300. Good grief as an exclamation of surprise, dismay, etc., is from 1912."

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