mourn

英 [m??n] 美[m?rn]

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第三人稱單數(shù):?mourns;過去式:?mourned;過去分詞:?mourned;現(xiàn)在分詞:?mourning;

mourn 哀悼，悲傷

來自古英語murnan,哀悼，悲傷，焦急，可能來自PIE*smer,記憶，詞源同memory,martyr.可能來自比喻用法，即由記憶引申回想，哀傷，哀悼等。

mourn (v.): Old English murnan "to mourn, bemoan, long after," also "be anxious about, be careful" (class III strong verb; past tense mearn, past participle murnen), from Proto-Germanic *murnan "to remember sorrowfully" (cognates: Old Saxon mornon, Old High German mornen, Gothic maurnan "to mourn," Old Norse morna "to pine away"), probably from PIE root *(s)mer- "to remember" (see memory); or, if the Old Norse sense is the base one, from *mer- "to die, wither." Related: Mourned; mourning.

1. When the government is finally brought down, no one will mourn its passing.: 當(dāng)政府最終垮臺(tái)之日，將不會(huì)有人為它的消亡而悲哀。

2. As the nation continued to mourn, the new President of South Africa paid his own tribute.: 舉國仍在哀悼之際，南非新任總統(tǒng)也表達(dá)了自己的懷念之情。

3. Blessed are they that mourn, for they -- they -- ": 有福的人是那些哀慟的人, 因?yàn)樗麄?—— 他們 —— ”