sorrowとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) enPR: sŏr'ō, IPA^(key): /ˈsɒɹəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑɹoʊ/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔɹoʊ/
• 韻: -ɒɹəʊ

名詞

sorrow (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 sorrows)

1. (uncountable) unhappiness, woe
   • August 28, 1750, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 47

     The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.

2. (countable) (usually in 複数形) An instance or cause of unhappiness.
   • 1963, C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins, 2nd Revised edition, page 14:

     Vaublanc, in San Domingo so sympathetic to the sorrows of labour in France, had to fly from Paris in August, 1792, to escape the wrath of the French workers.

   Parting is such sweet sorrow.

派生語

動詞

sorrow (三人称単数 現在形 sorrows, 現在分詞 sorrowing, 過去形および過去分詞形 sorrowed)

1. (intransitive) To feel or express grief.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 424:

     ‘Sorrow not, sir,’ says he, ‘like those without hope.’

2. (transitive) To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     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.

派生語

• besorrow