sorrow
英 [ˈsɒrəʊ] 美 [ˈsɑroʊ]

n.

悲痛；悔恨，惋惜；伤心事；

vt.& vi.

悲痛；遗憾；

变形

复数：sorrows

双语释义

n.(名词)

1. [U] 悲痛,悲伤; 遗憾,懊悔 feeling of sadness or distress caused especially by loss, regret, etc.
2. [C] 不幸的事,忧患 particular cause of this feeling; misfortune

英英释义

sorrow[ 'sɔrəu, 'sɔ:- ]

• n.
  • an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement

    "he tried to express his sorrow at her loss"

  • sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment

    "he drank to drown his sorrows"

    同义词：regretrueruefulness

  • something that causes great unhappiness

    同义词：grief

  • the state of being sad

    同义词：sadnesssorrowfulness

• v.feel grief; eat one's heart out

  同义词：grieve

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)动词+～

• cause the sorrow引起伤心事
• express〔show〕 the sorrow表示悲痛
• feel the sorrow感到伤心

形容词+～

• the deep sorrow深切的悲痛
• the keen〔profound〕 sorrow巨大的悲痛
• the personal sorrow个人的伤心事

～+介词

• the sorrow at对…的悲痛

同近义词辨析

sorrow, agony, grief, anguish, torment, distress, misery, torture

这组词都有“苦恼、痛苦”的意思，其区别是：

sorrow语气比grief弱，指因不幸、损失或失望等所产生的悲伤。

agony侧重指精神或身体痛苦的剧烈程度。

grief指由某种特殊处境或原因造成的强烈的感情上的苦恼与悲痛。

anguish指精神方面令人难以忍受的极度痛苦；用于身体时，多指局部或暂时的痛苦。

torment强调烦恼或痛苦的长期性。

distress多指因思想上的压力紧张、恐惧、忧虑等所引起的精神上的痛苦，也可指某种灾难带来的痛苦。

misery着重痛苦的可悲状态，多含不幸、可怜或悲哀的意味。

torture语气比toment强，指在精神或肉体上受到的折磨所产生的痛苦。

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. He wrung his hands in sorrow.
   他悲伤地绞紧双手。
2. He hanged himself in sorrow after his wife died.
   妻子死后，他因悲伤而自缢。
3. Life has many joys and sorrows.
   人生有许多欢乐和悲伤。
4. At last she keened her sorrow to me.
   终于她向我哭诉了悲痛之情。
5. He expressed his sorrow for what he had done.
   他对自己所做的事情表示懊悔。
6. The remembrance of past sorrow is joyful.
   昔日伤心事，思之有乐趣。
7. She was certain that some romantic sorrow had blighted his life and made him hard and bitter , and she felt that what he needed was the love of a good woman.
   她深信一定有某种罗曼蒂克的伤心事把他的生活给毁了，才使他变得这样强硬而苛刻，而他目前最需要的是一个好女人的爱。

用作不及物动词(vi.)

1. We sorrow over the death of his son.
   我们都为他儿子死感到悲伤。
2. The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
   忙碌的蜜蜂没有时间悔恨。

权威例句

Chronic sorrow : A response to having a mentally defective child
Circles of Sorrow, Lines of Struggle: The Novels of Toni Morrison
Looking for Spinoza: Joy, sorrow and the feeling brain (Book)
Disenfranchised Grief: Recognising Hidden Sorrow
Between joy and sorrow: being a parent of a child with developmental disability
Chronic sorrow in the HIV-positive patient: issues of race, gender, and social support.
Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain by Antonio Damasio
Human haploinsufficiency |[mdash]| one for sorrow, two for joy
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present
Chronic sorrow revisited: parent vs. professional depiction of the adjustment of parents of mentally retarded children.