sadden
英 ['s?d(?)n]
美['s?dn]
- vt. 使悲傷，使難過；使黯淡
- vi. 悲哀；悲痛
GRE低頻詞TEM4擴展詞匯
詞態變化
第三人稱單數:?saddens;過去式:?saddened;過去分詞:?saddened;現在分詞:?saddening;
中文詞源
sadden 使傷心，使難過
sad,傷心的，難過的，-en,使。
英文詞源
- sadden (v.)
- "to make sorrowful," 1620s, from sad + -en (1). Earlier verb was simply sade, from Old English sadian, which also could be the immediate source of the modern verb. Intransitive meaning "to become sad" is from 1718. Related: Saddened; saddening.
雙語例句
- 1. You can sigh away half your youth if you choose to allow failed relationship to sadden you.
- 如果你陷于失敗的傷感中,你就會使前半生在嘆息中度過.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. Don't sadden your friends and gladden your enemies.
- 勿使親者痛仇者快。
來自辭典例句
- 3. Do not sadden your friends and gladden your enemies.
- 勿使親者痛仇者快.
來自辭典例句
- 4. That dark Egyptian seems to me to sadden the very sun.
- 在我看來那個陰森的埃及人似乎會使太陽都變得黯淡無光.
來自辭典例句
- 5. It is something that can inspire as well as sadden people.
- 愛情能夠激勵一個人也能使人悲傷.
來自互聯網