Woe
[wəʊ] or [wo]
解释:
(n.) Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.
(n.) A curse; a malediction.
(a.) Woeful; sorrowful.
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同义词及近义词：
n. Sorrow, grief, distress, tribulation, affliction, anguish, agony, bitterness, misery, wretchedness, unhappiness, trouble, heart-ache, heavy heart, bleeding heart, broken heart, mental suffering, pain of mind.
校对:罗尼
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Grief, sorrow, misery, calamity, affliction, distress, disaster, trouble,malediction, curse
ANT:Joy, gladness, comfort, boon, happiness, prosperity, weal, benediction, blessing
科林整理
解释:
n. grief: misery: a heavy calamity: a curse: an exclamation of grief.—adj. sad wretched.—adjs. Woe′begone Wō′begone beset with woe (see Begone); Woe′ful Wō′ful Woe′some (Scot. Wae′some) sorrowful: bringing calamity: wretched.—advs. Woe′fully Wō′fully.—ns. Woe′fulness Wō′fulness.—adjs. Woe′-wea′ried -worn wearied worn with woe.—Woe worth the day (see Worth).—In weal and woe in prosperity and adversity.
黛布拉整理
例句:
- Woe to a dog if he crosses the line! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Paul, then, might dance with whom he would--and woe be to the interference which put him out of step. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Let us help each other through seasons of want and woe as well as we can, without heeding in the least the scruples of vain philosophy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- I could not stand your countenance dressed up in woe and paleness. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- Woe unto the world because of offences, but woe unto them through whom the offence cometh. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- But woe betide the one who has committed an act of bad faith, treachery, dishonesty, or ingratitude; THEN Edison can show what it is for a strong man to get downright mad. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Woe be to those whom he found there! 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Pity the laden one; this wandering woe May visit you and me. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- My deep love, my wild woe, my frantic prayer, are all nothing to you? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- And woe to Boythorn or other daring wight who shall presumptuously contest an inch with him! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Occupation alone, if I could deliver myself up to it, would be capable of affording an opiate to my sleepless sense of woe. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Ay sooth, we feel too strong in weal, to need Thee on that road; But woe being come, the soul is dumb, that crieth not on God. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- No, she added, in a softer tone; God mingles something of the balm of mercy even in vials of the most corrosive woe. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- The woe they must bring seemed certain as death. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- The more because of the gathering woe of which she heard from Bessy. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- Secrets absurd Leading to woes, Only are heard Under the rose. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- The communications were renewed from day to day: they always ran on the same theme--herself, her loves, and woes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- So short now seemed the remaining voyage of life,--so near, so vivid, seemed eternal blessedness,--that life's uttermost woes fell from him unharming. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- When night fell he was then more at rest, for in sleep he found a certain amount of compensation for the woes of his waking hours. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- To that water--cause of my woes, perhaps now to be their cure, I would betake myself. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Oh, I know it is easy for one to advise calmly on the woes of others. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Before calamity she is a tigress; she rends her woes, shivers them in convulsed abhorrence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- But he is generally melancholy and despairing; and sometimes he gnashes his teeth, as if impatient of the weight of woes that oppresses him. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- Miss Bart asked with a touch of irritation: she had not come to listen to the woes of other people. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Example: The selfishness of Achilles, as remarked by the poet Homer, occasioned a thousand woes to the Greeks--muri Achaiois alge etheke--(Hom. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
整理:肯尼思