| 单词 | sadness |
| 释义 | sad·ness 1. 2. < she talked about death as she spoke … of any of the sadnesses of nature — Willa Cather > Synonyms: < conscious of a profound sadness which was not grief — Arnold Bennett > < a certain sense of desolation and sadness — A.C.Benson > depression may indicate a brooding, listless, sullen, or despondent condition in which one usually feels let down, disheartened, enervated, or inadequate < never before, in any mood of depression, had she given evidence of suicidal thoughts — Havelock Ellis > < many youngsters are conscious of a vast depression when entering the portals of a university; they feel themselves inadequate to cope with the wisdom of the ages garnered in the solid walls — G.D.Brown > melancholy now is likely to indicate a mood or mental condition marked by sad and serious pensiveness < the wit, the gaiety of spirit tinged with a tender melancholy — W.H.Hudson †1922 > melancholia may indicate a settled deep depression verging on insanity < the excited phase is called mania and its counterpart is known as melancholia. In the former there is a slaphappy hilarity and a disregard of the conventional restraints, while the latter phase is marked by mournful and self-accusatory ideas and a countenance disfigured by despair — R.S.Ellery > dejection is close to depression but may apply to a more temporary mood and suggest a natural cause or logical reason < it was the last of the regiment's stay in Meryton, and all the young ladies in the neighborhood were drooping apace. The dejection was almost universal — Jane Austen > < these notable victories of the mind, from which so much was hoped, have had for result not so much increased happiness as disquiet, have made for dejection rather than rejoicing — W.M.Dixon > gloom may suggest the dark and dispiriting overall atmosphere or effect of depression or dejection < the leaden gloom of one who has lost all that can make life interesting, or even tolerable — Thomas Hardy > < the gloom that now lay over it in a dead and menacing quietude and stagnation — Walter de la Mare > blues simply indicates low spirits < suffering from a sharp attack of the blues. A feeling of depression and foreboding had taken possession of him. The present seemed empty and futile, the future dark with intangible calamity — F.W.Crofts > dumps, now usually used only in the phrase in the dumps, may indicate a deeper, more sullen and cheerless state than that indicated by blues < in the dumps about his stock market losses > |
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