英语单词 | sadness |
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英美音标 | 英 ['sædnəs] 美 ['sædnəs] |
中文释义 | n.悲哀 |
英语例句 | (1) His sudden death was occasion for much sadness. (2) Try to pin down the exact quality of its sadness. |
中文例句 | (1) 他的突然死亡是很多的悲哀场合。 (2) 努力弄清楚它的确切的悲哀特点。 |
vocabulary简明 | Someone who's blue feels sadness, like a little girl whose best friend has moved away. |
vocabulary扩展 | Use the noun sadness when you're talking about sorrow. Sadness may be the overwhelming mood at a funeral, for example, or an elderly man might describe his life's greatest sadness as letting his childhood sweetheart get away. An interesting thing about sadness is that its original meaning was "seriousness." It wasn't until the 1600s that it came to mean "full of sorrow." |
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