lachrymose
lachrymose 英 [ˈlækrɪməʊs] 美 [ˈlækrɪmoʊs]
adj. 爱哭的，易流泪的；悲哀的
名词复数:lachrymoses
- A good place to see a display of lachrymose sorrow is at a funeral — people sobbing openly or sniffling quietly into their hankies. To be lachrymose, in other words, is to be tearful.
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- adj. 爱哭的，易流泪的；悲哀的
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1. There still are those lachrymose liberals who can't stop welling up every time they see a black face in their vicinity.
那些容易掉泪的自由主义者，每当看到附近有个黑人时，他们的泪水就会喷涌而出。
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2. Glenn Beck, a lachrymose Fox News pundit, turned Hayek’s “The Road to Serfdom” into an unlikely bestseller earlier this year.
福克斯新闻的煽情评论家格伦•贝克使哈耶克的《通往奴役之路》出人意料的成为今年早些时候的畅销书。
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3. Nor did any lachrymose letter in the Times predict a speedy downfall of the Empire for this apathy of its local guardians.
《泰晤士报》上也没有刊登任何令人痛哭流涕的读者来信，预言说因为殖民地监护人的漠不关心，帝国就要迅速地倾覆②。
- lachrymose (adj.) also lacrymose, 1660s, "tear-like," from Latin lacrimosus "tearful, sorrowful, weeping," also "causing tears, lamentable," from lacrima, lacryma "a tear," a dialect-altered borrowing of Greek dakryma "a tear," from dakryein "to shed tears, weep, lament with tears," from dakry "a tear" (from PIE *dakru- "tear;" see tear (n.1)). Meaning "given to tears, tearful" is first attested 1727; meaning "of a mournful character" is from 1822. Related: Lachrymosely.
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