forlorn
forlorn 英 [fəˈlɔ:n] 美 [fərˈlɔrn]
adj. 被遗弃的；绝望的；孤独的
- Sniff, sniff, boo-hoo... use the adjective forlorn to express loneliness and feeling left out.
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- adj. 被遗弃的；绝望的；孤独的
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1. The Bible sometimes refers to "wailing" as an especially forlorn kind of weeping.
《圣经》中曾经把“恸哭”称作是一种特别绝望的哭泣。
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2. Sure enough, the frequency relationships in excited speech closely matched those of music in major keys, while those of forlorn speech matched minor music.
果然，兴奋语言中的频率与大音阶音乐非常匹配，而绝望和孤独的语言却与小音阶的音乐相匹配。
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3. The miasma of toxic stink leaves you gasping, breezes batter you with filth, and even the rats look forlorn.
有毒的气体让人无法呼吸，风把垃圾吹到脸上，甚至那里的老鼠看上去都是绝望的。
- forlorn (adj.) mid-12c., forloren "disgraced, depraved," past participle of obsolete forlesan "be deprived of, lose, abandon," from Old English forleosan "to lose, abandon, let go; destroy, ruin," from for- "completely" + leosan "to lose" (from PIE root *leu- "to loosen, divide, cut apart"). In the Mercian hymns, Latin perditionis is glossed by Old English forlorenisse. OED's examples of forlese end in 17c., but the past participle persisted. Sense of "forsaken, abandoned" is 1530s; that of "wretched, miserable" first recorded 1580s.
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