lachrymose
英 ['l?kr?m??s; -z]美['l?kr?mos]
- adj. 愛哭的，易流淚的；悲哀的
GRE
助記提示
1. “來顆淚沒事”，“閑著沒事就來顆淚”< lachrym, “來顆淚”
中文詞源
lachrymose 愛流淚的
來自拉丁語lacrima,眼淚，來自PIE*dakru,流淚，詞源同tear,字母d,l音變。
英文詞源
- lachrymose
- lachrymose: see tear
- lachrymose (adj.)
- 1660s, "tear-like," from Latin lacrimosus "tearful, sorrowful, weeping," also "causing tears, lamentable," from lacrima "tear," a dialect-altered borrowing of Greek dakryma "tear," from dakryein "to shed tears," from dakry "tear," from PIE *dakru- (see tear (n.1)). Meaning "given to tears, tearful" is first attested 1727; meaning "of a mournful character" is from 1822.
The -d- to -l- alteration in Latin is the so-called "Sabine -L-"; compare Latin olere "smell," from root of odor, and Ulixes, the Latin form of Greek Odysseus. The Medieval Latin practice of writing -ch- for -c- before Latin -r- also altered anchor, pulchritude, sepulchre. The -y- is pedantic, from belief in a Greek origin. Middle English had lacrymable "tearful" (mid-15c.).
雙語例句
- 1. She waxed lachrymose.
- 她傷心起來了。
來自辭典例句
- 2. He was by turns devout and obscene, merry and lachrymose.
- 他時(shí)而虔誠時(shí)而淫穢, 時(shí)而歡天喜地,時(shí)而凄然淚下.
來自辭典例句
- 3. Maybe if you moved away from Lake Lachrymose you might feel better.
- 也許搬離這悲哀之湖會(huì)讓你好受一些.
來自電影對白
