sorrow英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

unhappiness, woe uncountable

— But sorrow that is couch'd in seeming gladness Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness.
(usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness. countable

— Parting is such sweet sorrow.

动词 v.

To feel or express grief. intransitive

— ‘Sorrow not, sir,’ says he, ‘like those without hope.’
To feel grief over; to mourn, regret. transitive

— It is impossible to make a man naturally blind, to conceive that he seeth not; impossible to make him desire to see, and sorrow his defect.

词形变化

sorrows plural sorrowe alternative,obsolete sorrows present,singular,third-person sorrowing participle,present sorrowed participle,past sorrowed past sorrowe alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词

a sorrow shared is a sorrow halved China's Sorrow drown one's sorrows Our Lady of Sorrows seeksorrow shared sorrow is half sorrow sorrowful sorrowfully sorrowfulness sorrowless sorrowly sorrow-ridden sorrowsome sorrowy tree of sorrow besorrow oversorrow sorrower sorrowingly unsorrowing

词源

词源 1

From Middle English sorwe, sorow, sorewe, from Old English sorg, sorh (“care, anxiety, sorrow, grief”), from Proto-West Germanic *sorgu, from Proto-Germanic *surgō (compare West Frisian soarch, Dutch zorg, German Sorge, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian sorg), from Proto-Indo-European *swergʰ- (“watch over, worry; be ill, suffer”) (compare Old Irish serg (“sickness”), Tocharian B sark (“sickness”), Lithuanian sirgti (“be sick”), Sanskrit सूर्क्षति (sū́rkṣati, “worry”). Despite the similarity in form and meaning, not historically related to sorry and sore.

词源 2

From Middle English sorwe, sorow, sorewe, from Old English sorg, sorh (“care, anxiety, sorrow, grief”), from Proto-West Germanic *sorgu, from Proto-Germanic *surgō (compare West Frisian soarch, Dutch zorg, German Sorge, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian sorg), from Proto-Indo-European *swergʰ- (“watch over, worry; be ill, suffer”) (compare Old Irish serg (“sickness”), Tocharian B sark (“sickness”), Lithuanian sirgti (“be sick”), Sanskrit सूर्क्षति (sū́rkṣati, “worry”). Despite the similarity in form and meaning, not historically related to sorry and sore.