woe

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n. 悲哀, 悲痛, 苦痛

发音

UK /wəʊ/
US /woʊ/

词形变化

woes 复数 woes more woe 比较级 most woe 最高级

别名

wae wo

教材释义与例句

名词

悲哀，悲痛；灾难

感叹词

唉（表示痛苦，悲伤或悔恨）

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.

    可数 不可数

    Oh, woe is me!

    The Friday night rains which wrecked families in Kurabarahalli saw all the three major political parties making a beeline to express their condolences, listen to their woes and provide compensation in the hope of garnering their goodwill ahead of the 2018 assembly elections.

  2. 2.

    Calamity, trouble.

    悲痛

    悲恸

    可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    A curse; a malediction.

    可数 不可数
adj.
  1. 1.

    Woeful; sorrowful

    废旧
interj.
  1. 1.

    An exclamation of grief.

    唉

    古体

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

suffering woefulness

上位词 6

misery miserableness mournfulness ruthfulness sorrowfulness wretchedness

相关短语

woe is me 哀哉 woe betide woe to woe is I in weal and woe tale of woe tales of woe for weal or woe

词源

From Middle English wo, woo, from Old English wā, wǣ, from Proto-West Germanic *wai (interjection), from Proto-Germanic *wai (“woe!”, interjection), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wáy (“oh!; ah!; woe!; alas!”, interjection). Cognates Cognate with Scots wae (“woe”), Cimbrian bèa (“woe!”), Dutch wee (“nauseating”), German Weh, Wehe (“misery, woe; pain”), Yiddish וויי (vey, “pain; woe”), Danish, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish ve (“woe”), Icelandic væl (“cry, wail”), væla (“to cry, wail; to complain”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌹 (wai, “woe!”); also Cornish gew, go (“woe!”), Welsh gwae (“misery, woe”), Catalan, Italian, and Portuguese guai (“woe!”), Ladino guay, גואי (“woe”), Latin vae (“woe”), Romanian vai (“woe”), Spanish guay (“way”), Ancient Greek οὐαί (ouaí, “woe!”), Albanian vaj (“woe!”), Latvian vai (“oh!”), Bulgarian уви́ (uví, “alas”), Russian увы́ (uvý, “alas!”), Serbo-Croatian авај, avaj (“alas!”), Armenian վայ (vay, “sorrow, woe”), Persian وای (vây, “woe”).

来源：wiktionary