Sigh
[saɪ]
解释:
(noun.) an utterance made by exhaling audibly.
(noun.) a sound like a person sighing; 'she heard the sigh of the wind in the trees'.
(verb.) heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily; 'She sighed sadly'.
(verb.) utter with a sigh.
阿维斯整理--From WordNet
解释:
(v. i.) To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, or the like.
(v. i.) Hence, to lament; to grieve.
(v. i.) To make a sound like sighing.
(v. t.) To exhale (the breath) in sighs.
(v. t.) To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
(v. t.) To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.
(v. i.) A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued or grieved; the act of sighing.
(v. i.) Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lan/ent.
编辑:沃伦
同义词及近义词：
n. Long breath.
整理:罗德尼
解释:
v.i. to inhale and respire with a long deep and audible breathing as in love or grief: to sound like sighing.—v.t. to express by sighs.—n. a long deep audible respiration.—n. Sigh′er.—adj. Sigh′ful.—adv. Sigh′ingly.
以斯拉录入
娱乐性解释：
To dream that you are sighing over any trouble or sad event, denotes that you will have unexpected sadness, but some redeeming brightness in your season of trouble. To hear the sighing of others, foretells that the misconduct of dear friends will oppress you with a weight of gloom.
安尼塔整理
例句:
- Oh, certainly, certainly, answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of relief. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- Sitting close behind her, I heard her sigh. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- And Jo resigned herself with a sigh. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- No need to ponder the cause or the course of that sigh; I knew it was wakened by beauty; I knew it pursued Ginevra. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- A long sigh floated past them on the still waters, like the melancholy cry of a bird, and died away sadly in the distance. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- I believe it is very true, my dear, indeed, said Mr. Woodhouse, with a sigh. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- Maurice, leaning forward with a sigh, took a handful of nuts, which he proceeded to crack in a listless fashion. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- The wind sighed low in the firs: all was moorland loneliness and midnight hush. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- I'm better now, she sighed, looking up at me quietly. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Elinor sighed over the fancied necessity of this; but to a man and a soldier she presumed not to censure it. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- No sleep was there: the inmate was walking restlessly from wall to wall; and again and again he sighed while I listened. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Pleasant, pleasant country,' sighed the enthusiastic gentleman, as he opened his lattice window. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Mrs. Clements sighed and shook her head doubtfully. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Oliver knew this too well; but thinking it might be dangerous to express his feelings more openly, he only sighed, and went on with his boot-cleaning. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- She vented petulant words every now and then, but there were sighs between her words, and sudden listenings between her sighs. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- The Bridge of Sighs, of course--and next the Church and the Great Square of St. Mark, the Bronze Horses, and the famous Lion of St. Mark. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- There escaped from Eustacia one of those shivering sighs which used to shake her like a pestilent blast. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- The doomed man was marched down a hall and out at a door-way into the covered Bridge of Sighs, through it and into the dungeon and unto his death. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Edmund's deep sighs often reached Fanny. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- Margaret sat at the window, looking out at the lamps and the street, but seeing nothing,--only alive to her father's heavy sighs. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- To thee do we send up our sighs, mournings and weepings in this valley of tears-- 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- He was now at my feet, the humble sighing, adoring, suppliant lover again. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- I dare say, returned Harriet, sighing again, I dare say she was very much attached to him. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- Thank you, returned Argyle, sighing. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Calypso sighing for Ulysses, observed Crispin, without altering his position; though I dare say it is only the wind moaning through the ropes. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Yielding, therefore, the chair at the bedside to the quaint old housekeeper, Volumnia sits at a table a little removed, sympathetically sighing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- What she uttered was a lengthened sighing, apparently at something in her mind which had led to her presence here. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Was he bewitched by those beautiful eyes, that soft, half-open, sighing mouth which lay so close upon his shoulder only yesterday? 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
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