woe is me

短语

哀哉

发音

UK /ˌwəʊ ɪz ˈmiː/
US /ˌwoʊ ɪz ˈmi/

别名

woe is I

释义与例句

interj.
  1. 1.

    Used to show that the speaker feels distress or misery; humorous use usually also signals self-awareness regarding excessive self-pity.

    哀哉

    幽默

词源

Here, the oblique pronoun me denotes not an informal copulative complement (as in this is me), but an indirect object, wherefore it literally means woe is to me, an obsolete way of saying I feel woe; compare German mir ist traurig (“I feel sad”, literally “to-me [it] is sad”). Idiomatically, it means woe is upon me. See also German weh ist mir and its descendant, Yiddish וויי איז מיר (vey iz mir), which are identical in form and meaning to the English expression.

来源：wiktionary