| 单词 | grief |
| 释义 | griefWord family adjectivegrieffulgrieflessgrief-strickennoungrief grief /ɡriːf/ ●●○ noun 1 [uncountableU]SAD/UNHAPPY extreme sadness, especially because someone you love has died 悲痛，极度悲伤〔尤指因所爱之人去世〕 grief over/at The grief she felt over Helen’s death was almost unbearable. 她因海伦的去世而悲痛难当。 with grief Charles was overcome with grief. 查尔斯悲痛欲绝。 2 [countableC]SAD/UNHAPPY something that makes you feel extremely sad 伤心事，不幸 Every change in our lives brings with it griefs. 我们生活当中的每一个变化都有让人伤心的一面。 3 good grief! spokenSURPRISED used when you are slightly surprised or annoyed 哎哟！〔用于略感惊讶或气恼之时〕 Good grief! What a mess! 我的天！这么乱！ Examples from the Corpus good grief!• Good grief! Look the mess in here! 4 come to grief FAILto fail, or to be harmed or destroyed in an accident 失败；〔在事故中〕受损，被毁 candidates who come to grief in exams 考试失利的应试者 Examples from the Corpus come to grief• But out of sight at the other end of the course, Mr Hill had also come to grief.• She'd come to grief acting like that, but not from him.• This is often far from the case and many a combination has come to grief at the very last fence.• Far from remaining a hero, he came to grief.• The reductivist enterprise thus inevitably comes to grief, and it is not altogether surprising that it does.• When it comes to that interesting pastime, most members of most species come to grief.• Then might not the rotting stump of the tree split under their weight and they come to grief? 5. give somebody grief informalCRITICIZE to criticize someone in an annoying way 数落[责备]某人 Examples from the Corpus give somebody grief• Frank always gives me grief about my sloppy handwriting. 6 [uncountableU] informal trouble or problems 麻烦，问题 You’ll save yourself a lot of grief if you check the measurements first. 如果你先核实尺寸，就可以省去不少麻烦。 Examples from the Corpus grief• This will only bring about grief for what do we really know about ourselves or some one else?• The oil caused enough grief in Scapa Flow at the time.• She'd thought it was Anna, snuffling in her sleep or from grief.• We didn't say much, but his grief was obvious.• Whatever pangs of grief and guilt and shame Emilia might suffer had remained locked inside her, an unapproachable wound.• Tomorrow, he decided, he must press her to a full disclosure of the grief harboured in her heart.• It is his own mind's way of coping with the grief, and he knows it.• Thousands of people sent floral tributes as an expression of their grief.• When my child died I might have given way to grief as I loved him very much.• All the boy knew in that circumstance was grief and worry and surprise and rage.• He was overcome with grief when his wife died. grief over/at• Acute grief at the death of one parent may inhibit a family for caring for the surviving spouse.• He neither showed nor expressed any grief at this regrettable development.• And if you gave them any grief at all, they said they would just kick her out.• Her grief at his death was deep and sincere.• Let's consider multiple grief over time first.• Has there been an outpouring of grief at the horrific way they died?• This is often far from the case and many a combination has come to grief at the very last fence. (1200-1300) Old French gref, from Latin gravis; → GRAVE1 |
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