grief
grief 英 [gri:f] 美 [ɡrif]
n. 悲痛；忧伤；不幸
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. 悲痛；忧伤；不幸
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1. His face is marked with grief.
他的脸上露出悲痛的表情。
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2. She rallied from the grief of her mother's death.
她已从丧母的悲痛中恢复过来。
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3. They have been racked with grief since she died last Tuesday.
从她上星期二去世后，他们一直沉浸在悲痛中。
- 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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