grief
grief 英 [gri:f] 美 [ɡrif]
n. 悲伤，忧伤
名词复数:griefs
- Grief means intense sorrow. You feel grief if something terribly sad happens, like if your dog dies or if your childhood sweetheart breaks up with you.
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- n. 悲伤，忧伤
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1. She was overcome with grief when her husband died.
丈夫去世时她悲痛欲绝。
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2. It was a grief to them that they had no children.
没有孩子是他们的一块心病。
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3. He caused his parents a lot of grief.
他没少让父母操心。
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4. Several pedestrians came to grief on the icy pavement.
好几个人都在结了冰的人行道上摔伤了。
- grief (n.) early 13c., "hardship, suffering, pain, bodily affliction," from Old French grief "wrong, grievance, injustice, misfortune, calamity" (13c.), from grever "afflict, burden, oppress," from Latin gravare "make heavy; cause grief," from gravis "weighty" (from PIE root *gwere-(1) "heavy"). Meaning "mental pain, sorrow" is from c. 1300. Good grief as an exclamation of surprise, dismay, etc., is from 1912.
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