melancholy
n. 忧郁, 悲哀, 愁思 a. 忧郁的, 使人悲伤的, 愁思的
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教材释义与例句
忧郁；悲哀；愁思
忧郁的；使人悲伤的
释义与例句
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1.
Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.
可数 历史 不可数Melancholy, cold and dry, thick, black, and sour, […] is a bridle to the other two hot humours, blood and choler, preserving them in the blood, and nourishing the bones.
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Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
忧郁
悲哀
可数 不可数As to Ernest... He is quite as nervously broken down as I am but it manifests itself in different ways. His inclination is towards megalomania and mine towards melancholy.
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Affected with great sadness or depression.
文学Melancholy people don't talk much.
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Suggestive of wistfulness or subdued emotion.
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From Middle English malencolie, from Old French melancolie, from Ancient Greek μελαγχολία (melankholía, “atrabiliousness”) (from μέλας (mélas), μελαν- (melan-, “black, dark, murky”) + χολή (kholḗ, “bile”)), referring to the humour which ancient Hippocratic and later Galenic medicine associated with sadness and despondency. Compare the Latin ātra bīlis (“black bile”). The adjectival use is a Middle English innovation, perhaps influenced by the suffixes -y, -ly. Doublet of melancholia.
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