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词汇 sorrow
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Definition of sorrow in English:

sorrow

noun ˈsɒrəʊ
mass noun
  • 1A feeling of deep distress caused by loss, disappointment, or other misfortune suffered by oneself or others.

    悲伤,痛苦

    a bereaved person needs time to work through their sorrow

    失去亲人的人需要一段时间来克服悲痛。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Throughout his life, war would cause him deep personal sorrow.
    • But it never occurred to her or her partners to complain, bearing in mind their deep sorrow and the great honour of taking part in such a glorious project.
    • She had a look of sorrow mixed with disappointment on her face.
    • We enjoy his victories, and feel true sorrow for his losses.
    • She moved toward the stables, toward the horse that could take her to freedom, to bear her message of sorrow and loss.
    • And that was when he saw the confusion in the other's eyes, masking only deep sorrow and resentment.
    • The Civil War caused him great sorrow and the heavy losses on both sides filled him with sadness.
    • He has much the same look as the old man, the look of deep sorrow and despair.
    • Pain, anger, suffering, sorrow, loss, death, distraught, fear; all of those were brought on by war.
    • But the feeling brought to us by the tragedy of the five students is deep sorrow, not pride.
    • We need time to feel our pain, our loss, and our sorrow.
    • The long years had done little to ease his sorrow at the loss of his mate, or the rage he felt towards her killers.
    • With deep sorrow for those who suffered and died, I must say that his momentous decision, which hastened the end of that awful war, was justified.
    • His book revealed his sorrow and disappointment, nothing else.
    • He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.
    • Mary suffered great sorrow in her life, but she accepted her losses and crosses.
    • But the scene avoids sentimentality also because we know it is bubbling up from deep personal sorrow.
    • Although they were getting along and all appeared to be going well on the outside he knew that he was masking his deep sorrow and loss through his music.
    • He was standing stiffly at his gate, staring into the cemetery, his eyes deep pools of inexpressible sorrow.
    • It was also to remember her journey through pain, sorrow, loss and deprivation.
    Synonyms
    sadness, unhappiness, dejection, regret, depression, misery, cheerlessness, downheartedness, despondency, despair, desolation, wretchedness, glumness, gloom, gloominess, heaviness of heart, dolefulness, melancholy, low spirits, mournfulness, woe, broken-heartedness, heartache, grief
    informal down
    literary dolorous
    rare disconsolateness, disconsolation, dismalness
    1. 1.1count noun An event or circumstance that causes sorrow.
      伤心事
      it was a great sorrow to her when they separated

      对她来说,他们分手是件极其伤心的事情。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • From the past sorrows, we derive our self-respect to love our compatriots.
      • Who knows what sorrows Abhinav's cheerful countenance concealed?
      • Jesus is coming this time not as a helpless baby in a manger, not as a man of sorrows, but as victor and conqueror to claim his own.
      • Sharing overwhelming sorrows and affection, Yun suggested to Kim that they return to Korea.
      • Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion and forgiveness.
      • But experience has also helped deepen Taylor's early understanding of life's joys and its sorrows.
      • He shares our joys and sorrows, and when events like the tsunami challenge our Christian faith, it actually deepens our belief in Him.
      • Amid the discomforts of his passage the author reflects on or trawls his past, his sorrows and betrayals, his experience as a wartime evacuee.
      • There was no drowning of sorrows, just a drink to the future.
      • Joe had many sorrows in life, his good wife Mary died, and his son Michael died at 26 years of age.
      • Drown my sorrows or just make the most of being alive!
      • This book, besides being dramatic history, is a moving chronicle of the sorrows and torments of the persecuted.
      • Both are forced to seek consolation in drink, both forced to burden their young with their sorrows.
      • I take great pleasure in the wonderful sorrows of life, as Lucio used to say.
      • Whether you want to drown in melodic pop or pound out your sorrows to some '80s metal, there's a band or artist ready to help.
      • I want now to share her sorrows and forgive everything what happened in my life in the past and live a tension free, happy life.
      • It would spring like a fountain, covering all of her sorrows and worries, flowing like a river out of hell…
      • I've had my sorrows and my heartaches, but I've had my joys, you know, and my rewards.
      • Hakim, hearing my sorrows, thought, among other things, that I thought about it too much.
      • But still I'm enjoying myself: there's pleasure in reliving old sorrows at a safe distance.
      Synonyms
      trouble, difficulty, problem, adversity, misery, woe, affliction, trial, tribulation, misfortune, reverse of fortune, misadventure, mishap, stroke of bad luck, setback, reverse, blow, failure, accident, disaster, tragedy, catastrophe, calamity
    2. 1.2 The outward expression of grief; lamentation.
      (外露的)悲哀;悲叹;哀悼
      Example sentencesExamples
      • What heart without evaporating in sighs can ponder the burden of deepest sorrows and lamentations of parents, children, husbands, wives, kinsmen, friends.
verb ˈsɒrəʊ
[no object]
  • Feel or display deep distress.

    深感悲伤;痛表伤感

    a woman had cried all night, sorrowing over the death of her husband
    Example sentencesExamples
    • No, it is not by sorrowing, nor by compulsion that truth can prosper, it is by patient work alone that the work can be done: -
    • How can we best serve the memory of the dead, have empathy for the frightened and sorrowing and express our own insecurities?
    • Does warfare cause us to sorrow over sin and pray for Christ's return?
    • And I find myself wondering if the director, who recently turned 50, might not be at some sort of creative impasse, sorrowing for the lost simplicities of a rural way of life, and the passions and certainties of youth.
    • Nowhere is this more visible than in the pasos or processional statues of bleeding Christs and sorrowing Virgins by Martínez Montañés, Juan de Mesa, the Moras, and Pedro Roldán.
    • Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing onward through life we go.
    • I was amazed because he had never come into my mind save then; and I sorrowed, remembering his fate.
    • Mostly they pull it off: Hanks with his fleshy, sorrowing potato-face, and Newman, his ageless blue eyes glaring out with a predatory serenity, conjuring something Shakespearean and damned.
    • Paul explains that his readers must not sorrow for their loved ones as do ‘the rest’ who have no hope.
    • I sorrow for the buildings and the people who have gone.
    • Maybe it won't, if in their grief Americans make common cause with other sorrowing humans.
    • I sorrow for you, I have seen your devotion to her, but I speak the truth.
    • After spending some time about the pool where it was believed Demeter had once sat sorrowing for her daughter, those seeking full initiation then entered the inner courtyard.
    • Hill's tribute for his 70th birthday, a sequence of 120 stanzas, offers many more, puzzling voices - impatient, sorrowing, joking, gentle.
    • The enslaved Baptist regretted and sorrowed over the inability in many instances to maintain family cohesion because of the auction block (as did the Muslim).
    • I sorrow without relief for the sight that you deny, and die, for I long to die.
    • But those who can discern the Lord's body in the Supper and who comes sorrowing for sin and seeking grace are welcome at the feast.
    • I left the lawn and moved in the white light and silence along the road, aimless and sorrowing.
    • ‘The village sorrowed when you left,’ she finally said in Elven with the familiar, heavy accent.
    • Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes.
    Synonyms
    be sad, feel sad, be miserable, be despondent, despair, suffer, ache, agonize, anguish, be wretched, be dejected, be heavy of heart, pine, weep, shed tears, grieve, mourn, lament, wail

Origin

Old English sorh, sorg (noun), sorgian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zorg and German Sorge.

Rhymes

borrow, Corot, morrow, tomorrow

Definition of sorrow in US English:

sorrow

noun
  • 1A feeling of deep distress caused by loss, disappointment, or other misfortune suffered by oneself or others.

    悲伤,痛苦

    he understood the sorrow and discontent underlying his brother's sigh
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We enjoy his victories, and feel true sorrow for his losses.
    • We need time to feel our pain, our loss, and our sorrow.
    • His book revealed his sorrow and disappointment, nothing else.
    • She had a look of sorrow mixed with disappointment on her face.
    • Although they were getting along and all appeared to be going well on the outside he knew that he was masking his deep sorrow and loss through his music.
    • And that was when he saw the confusion in the other's eyes, masking only deep sorrow and resentment.
    • He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.
    • He was standing stiffly at his gate, staring into the cemetery, his eyes deep pools of inexpressible sorrow.
    • She moved toward the stables, toward the horse that could take her to freedom, to bear her message of sorrow and loss.
    • With deep sorrow for those who suffered and died, I must say that his momentous decision, which hastened the end of that awful war, was justified.
    • He has much the same look as the old man, the look of deep sorrow and despair.
    • It was also to remember her journey through pain, sorrow, loss and deprivation.
    • But the scene avoids sentimentality also because we know it is bubbling up from deep personal sorrow.
    • Mary suffered great sorrow in her life, but she accepted her losses and crosses.
    • But the feeling brought to us by the tragedy of the five students is deep sorrow, not pride.
    • But it never occurred to her or her partners to complain, bearing in mind their deep sorrow and the great honour of taking part in such a glorious project.
    • The Civil War caused him great sorrow and the heavy losses on both sides filled him with sadness.
    • The long years had done little to ease his sorrow at the loss of his mate, or the rage he felt towards her killers.
    • Pain, anger, suffering, sorrow, loss, death, distraught, fear; all of those were brought on by war.
    • Throughout his life, war would cause him deep personal sorrow.
    Synonyms
    sadness, unhappiness, dejection, regret, depression, misery, cheerlessness, downheartedness, despondency, despair, desolation, wretchedness, glumness, gloom, gloominess, heaviness of heart, dolefulness, melancholy, low spirits, mournfulness, woe, broken-heartedness, heartache, grief
    1. 1.1 An event or circumstance that causes sorrow.
      伤心事
      it was a great sorrow to her when they separated

      对她来说,他们分手是件极其伤心的事情。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • This book, besides being dramatic history, is a moving chronicle of the sorrows and torments of the persecuted.
      • Joe had many sorrows in life, his good wife Mary died, and his son Michael died at 26 years of age.
      • Sharing overwhelming sorrows and affection, Yun suggested to Kim that they return to Korea.
      • It would spring like a fountain, covering all of her sorrows and worries, flowing like a river out of hell…
      • There was no drowning of sorrows, just a drink to the future.
      • Jesus is coming this time not as a helpless baby in a manger, not as a man of sorrows, but as victor and conqueror to claim his own.
      • Who knows what sorrows Abhinav's cheerful countenance concealed?
      • Hakim, hearing my sorrows, thought, among other things, that I thought about it too much.
      • But experience has also helped deepen Taylor's early understanding of life's joys and its sorrows.
      • Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion and forgiveness.
      • Drown my sorrows or just make the most of being alive!
      • Amid the discomforts of his passage the author reflects on or trawls his past, his sorrows and betrayals, his experience as a wartime evacuee.
      • I've had my sorrows and my heartaches, but I've had my joys, you know, and my rewards.
      • I want now to share her sorrows and forgive everything what happened in my life in the past and live a tension free, happy life.
      • Both are forced to seek consolation in drink, both forced to burden their young with their sorrows.
      • But still I'm enjoying myself: there's pleasure in reliving old sorrows at a safe distance.
      • He shares our joys and sorrows, and when events like the tsunami challenge our Christian faith, it actually deepens our belief in Him.
      • From the past sorrows, we derive our self-respect to love our compatriots.
      • Whether you want to drown in melodic pop or pound out your sorrows to some '80s metal, there's a band or artist ready to help.
      • I take great pleasure in the wonderful sorrows of life, as Lucio used to say.
      Synonyms
      trouble, difficulty, problem, adversity, misery, woe, affliction, trial, tribulation, misfortune, reverse of fortune, misadventure, mishap, stroke of bad luck, setback, reverse, blow, failure, accident, disaster, tragedy, catastrophe, calamity
    2. 1.2 The outward expression of grief; lamentation.
      (外露的)悲哀;悲叹;哀悼
      Example sentencesExamples
      • What heart without evaporating in sighs can ponder the burden of deepest sorrows and lamentations of parents, children, husbands, wives, kinsmen, friends.
verb
[no object]
  • Feel or display deep distress.

    深感悲伤;痛表伤感

    a woman had cried all night, sorrowing over the death of her husband
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes.
    • And I find myself wondering if the director, who recently turned 50, might not be at some sort of creative impasse, sorrowing for the lost simplicities of a rural way of life, and the passions and certainties of youth.
    • The enslaved Baptist regretted and sorrowed over the inability in many instances to maintain family cohesion because of the auction block (as did the Muslim).
    • I sorrow without relief for the sight that you deny, and die, for I long to die.
    • Hill's tribute for his 70th birthday, a sequence of 120 stanzas, offers many more, puzzling voices - impatient, sorrowing, joking, gentle.
    • I sorrow for the buildings and the people who have gone.
    • Maybe it won't, if in their grief Americans make common cause with other sorrowing humans.
    • I left the lawn and moved in the white light and silence along the road, aimless and sorrowing.
    • I sorrow for you, I have seen your devotion to her, but I speak the truth.
    • Mostly they pull it off: Hanks with his fleshy, sorrowing potato-face, and Newman, his ageless blue eyes glaring out with a predatory serenity, conjuring something Shakespearean and damned.
    • No, it is not by sorrowing, nor by compulsion that truth can prosper, it is by patient work alone that the work can be done: -
    • ‘The village sorrowed when you left,’ she finally said in Elven with the familiar, heavy accent.
    • Nowhere is this more visible than in the pasos or processional statues of bleeding Christs and sorrowing Virgins by Martínez Montañés, Juan de Mesa, the Moras, and Pedro Roldán.
    • Paul explains that his readers must not sorrow for their loved ones as do ‘the rest’ who have no hope.
    • I was amazed because he had never come into my mind save then; and I sorrowed, remembering his fate.
    • Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing onward through life we go.
    • But those who can discern the Lord's body in the Supper and who comes sorrowing for sin and seeking grace are welcome at the feast.
    • Does warfare cause us to sorrow over sin and pray for Christ's return?
    • After spending some time about the pool where it was believed Demeter had once sat sorrowing for her daughter, those seeking full initiation then entered the inner courtyard.
    • How can we best serve the memory of the dead, have empathy for the frightened and sorrowing and express our own insecurities?
    Synonyms
    be sad, feel sad, be miserable, be despondent, despair, suffer, ache, agonize, anguish, be wretched, be dejected, be heavy of heart, pine, weep, shed tears, grieve, mourn, lament, wail

Origin

Old English sorh, sorg (noun), sorgian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zorg and German Sorge.

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