喜樂美語
  1. 1nB2/ˈsædnəs/難過；傷心

    The feeling you have when you are sad, or the state of being sad — often when a happy time is ending, or when you feel sorry about someone else's unhappiness.

    示範例句 · Example

    Mei felt a deep sadness when her best friend moved to another city.

    逐字當她最好的朋友搬到另一個城市時，美感到一種深深的難過。

    sadness 是形容詞 sad 的名詞，指「難過」這個心情本身。它不可數，所以會說 feel sadness、deep sadness、a sense of sadness，不會說 a sadness 或 sadnesses。這種感覺可以想成「心裡沉沉的、安安靜靜的那種難過」——比 grief（親人離開時的悲痛）輕，也比 unhappiness（長期過得不快樂）短，常出現在快樂的事情要結束時，或看到別人不好過的時候。

    常見搭配

    • deep sadness

      深深的難過

      a strong feeling of being sad

      Leo felt a deep sadness on the last day of camp.

    • a sense of sadness

      一股淡淡的難過

      a quiet feeling that something is sad

      There was a sense of sadness in the empty classroom.

    • with great sadness

      帶著很大的難過（正式用法）

      in a way that shows you feel very sad

      With great sadness, we closed the little bookshop on Sunday.

    • full of sadness

      滿是難過

      showing a lot of sadness

      The old song is full of sadness.

    • feel sadness

      感到難過

      to have the feeling of being sad

      It is okay to feel sadness when something good ends.

core核心畫面

You can picture it as the heavy, quiet feeling that settles in you when something good is over, or when you see someone else hurting — not sharp pain, but a weight that slows you down and takes the brightness out of things.

可以想成心裡沉下去的那一塊：好的事情結束了、或看見別人不好過的時候，胸口那種安靜的重量。它不像痛那樣尖銳，比較像整個人慢下來、眼前的東西都失去了顏色。sadness 是名詞，指的就是「難過」這個感覺本身，或人處在難過裡的那個狀態——所以英文才會說 a feeling of sadness、with great sadness，把它當成一樣可以描述、可以帶著走的東西。

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原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

sadnessnoun/ˈsædnəs/

  • 1

    The state or emotion of being sad.

    • But sorrow that is couch'd in seeming gladness Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness.
    • I mean not then under the name of Sadneſs to defend effeminate Bewailings and Lamentations; let them that ſubject themſelves to this weakeſt Impatience, be alſo ſubject to the Lycian Law, that bound theſe kind of Lamenters to be array'd like Women: […]
  • 2

    An event in one's life that causes sadness.

    • She has experienced many sadnesses in her forty years.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。