melancholy

英['melənkəli] 美['melənkɑːli]
  • n. 忧郁;忧愁;悲伤
  • adj. 忧沉的;使人悲伤的
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星级词汇:
    n. (名词)
    1. [U]忧郁,悲哀 feeling of sadness
    adj. (形容词)
    1. (令人)悲哀的;(令人)沮丧的 very sad or making you feel sadness

英英释义

Noun:
  1. a feeling of thoughtful sadness

  2. a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed

  3. a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy

Adjective:
  1. characterized by or causing or expressing sadness;

    "growing more melancholy every hour"
    "her melancholic smile"
    "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"

  2. grave or even gloomy in character;

    "solemn and mournful music"
    "a suit of somber black"
    "a somber mood"

1. He fixed me with those luminous, empty eyes and his melancholy smile.
他笑容忧郁地凝视着我,闪亮的眼睛里空无一物。

来自柯林斯例句

2. The general watched the process with an air of melancholy.
将军神情忧郁地望着队列经过。

来自柯林斯例句

3. Melancholy and mistrust of men hold her back.
忧郁的性格和对男人的不信任使她裹足不前。

来自柯林斯例句

4. A mood of melancholy descended on us.
一种悲伤的情绪袭上我们的心头。

来自《权威词典》

5. All at once he fell into a state of profound melancholy.
他立即陷入无尽的忧思之中.

来自《简明英汉词典》

    用作名词 (n.)
    1. Melancholy is the preponderant mood of the poem.
      忧郁的感情是该诗的基调。
    2. The melancholy of Antonio is caused by the serious social background rather than his own personality.
      剧中安东尼奥的忧郁不仅是个性使然,更具有沉重的社会背景
    3. Her sweet words dispersed his melancholy.
      她的温柔话语驱散了他的忧愁。
    4. There in the melancholy, in the dreariness, Bertha found a bitter fascination.
      在这里,在阴郁、倦怠之中,伯莎发现了一种刺痛人心的魅力。
    用作形容词 (adj.)
    1. You must rid yourself of this melancholy mood.
      你一定要摆脱这种忧愁情绪。
    2. She fell into a train of melancholy thoughts.
      于是她陷进了一种连续不绝的忧郁思想里。
    3. A funeral is a melancholy occasion.
      葬礼是一个令人忧伤的场合。
    4. The church bell clashed its melancholy note.
      教堂的钟敲出悲凉的调子。
    5. The receipt of her letter threw me into melancholy state.
      一收到她的来信,我便陷入深深的忧郁中。
    用作名词 (n.)
    1. A mood of melancholy descended on us.
      一种悲伤的情绪袭上我们的心头。
    用作形容词 (adj.)
    用作表语 S+be+~
    1. He pined and became melancholy.
      他衰弱憔悴,心情忧郁。
sad,unhappy,gloomy,blue,sorrowful,melancholy
  • 这些形容词均含“忧伤的,悲哀的,伤感的”之意。
  • sad最常用词,泛指一切形式的悲伤,着重暂时的不幸或感觉的忧伤。
  • unhappy多指日常生活中遇到不如意的事而感到不愉快、不幸,侧重指心理状态。
  • gloomy指愁眉苦脸,令他人也感到扫兴。
  • blue非正式用词,语气较随便,指较强烈的忧郁或沮丧。
  • sorrowful多指因丧失亲人等原因所引起的悲哀,也指由于错误而产生的悔恨交加的心情。
  • melancholy指经常性的忧郁或悲哀,多用于文学描写中。