• n. 悲傷；懊悔；傷心事
• vi. 懊悔；遺憾；感到悲傷
• vt. 為…悲痛

來自古英語 sorg,悲傷，悲痛，來自 Proto-Germanic*surgo,擔(dān)心，痛苦，關(guān)切，來自 PIE*swergh, 照看，照顧，操心。該詞與 sore 雖然在詞義上有所重合，但是不屬于同源詞，該詞在詞源 上指擔(dān)心別人而引起的悲痛，而 sore 在詞源上指自己的痛苦所造成的疼痛。

sorrow (n.)

Old English sorg "grief, regret, trouble, care, pain, anxiety," from Proto-Germanic *sorg- (cognates: Old Saxon sorga, Old Norse sorg, Middle Dutch sorghe, Dutch zorg, Old High German soraga, German sorge, Gothic saurga), perhaps from PIE *swergh- "to worry, be sick" (cognates: Sanskrit surksati "cares for," Lithuanian sergu "to be sick," Old Church Slavonic sraga "sickness," Old Irish serg "sickness"). Not connected etymologically with sore (adj.) or sorry.

sorrow (v.)

Old English sorgian, from sorg (see sorrow (n.)). Related: Sorrowed; sorrowing. Compare Dutch zorgen, German sorgen, Gothic saurgan.

1. He always woke with a sense of deep sorrow and depressing loss.

他醒來時總是滿懷哀愁，抑郁惆悵。

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2. Gertrude now clearly felt that she had obtruded her sorrow.

格特魯?shù)麓藭r明顯察覺自己的悲傷情緒已影響到他人。

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3. He felt a great weight of sorrow inside him.

他內(nèi)心感到極為沉痛.

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4. As he looked at Katherine, great sorrow clouded his eyes.

他看著凱瑟琳，滿眼憂傷。

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5. "Oh, I despair sometimes," he says in mock sorrow.

“啊，我有時會感到絕望，”他假裝悲傷地說。

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