A deep, quiet sadness that sits in you after a loss — heavy and slow, not sharp, and it stays.
From the word’s history
From Old English sorg "care, anxiety, grief", from Proto-Germanic *surgō — the same root as German Sorge; the word has always named an inner weight, first worry and later deep sadness.
一種看法是：這個字從古英語 sorg 來（意思是掛心、憂慮、悲傷），再往上是原始日耳曼語 *surgō，跟德語的 Sorge、荷蘭語 zorg 同源。早期它偏「掛心、放不下」，後來重心移到失去之後的深沉悲傷——但「心裡壓著一件事」這個底層感覺一直在，也解釋了為什麼 sorrow 比較像持續的重量而不是一時的情緒。
Wiktionary entry for "sorrow" (Old English sorg < Proto-West Germanic *sorgu < Proto-Germanic *surgō, cognate with German Sorge), as supplied in the payload origin note
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原始詞典資料5 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。
Sorrowname
- 1
A surname.
sorrownoun/ˈsɒɹəʊ/
- 1
unhappiness, woe
- But sorrow that is couch'd in seeming gladness Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness.
- The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.
- 2
(usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.
- Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- She had nursed all the children, including Sandro, to whom she was devoted, and my husband was just as fond of her. His going away to America was a great sorrow to her, and she always kept the sacred light burning on a little altar for Sandro all the time of his long absence.
sorrowverb/ˈsɒɹəʊ/
- 1
To feel or express grief.
- ‘Sorrow not, sir,’ says he, ‘like those without hope.’
- When, as sometimes happens, a lad dies from the effect of the operation, he is buried secretly in the forest, and his sorrowing mother is told that the monster has a pig's stomach as well as a human stomach, and that unfortunately her son slipped into the wrong stomach.
- 2
To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.
- It is impossible to make a man naturally blind, to conceive that he seeth not; impossible to make him desire to see, and sorrow his defect.
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。