Old English sorg "grief, regret, trouble, care, pain, anxiety," from Proto-Germanic *sorg- (cognates: Old Saxon sorga, Old Norse sorg, Middle Dutch sorghe, Dutch zorg, Old High German soraga, German sorge, Gothic saurga), perhaps from PIE *swergh- "to worry, be sick" (cognates: Sanskrit surksati "cares for," Lithuanian sergu "to be sick," Old Church Slavonic sraga "sickness," Old Irish serg "sickness"). Not connected etymologically with sore (adj.) or sorry.
sorrow (v.)
Old English sorgian, from sorg (see sorrow (n.)). Related: Sorrowed; sorrowing. Compare Dutch zorgen, German sorgen, Gothic saurgan.
雙語例句
1. He always woke with a sense of deep sorrow and depressing loss.
他醒來時總是滿懷哀愁，抑郁惆悵。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Gertrude now clearly felt that she had obtruded her sorrow.
格特魯?shù)麓藭r明顯察覺自己的悲傷情緒已影響到他人。
來自柯林斯例句
3. He felt a great weight of sorrow inside him.
他內(nèi)心感到極為沉痛.
來自柯林斯例句
4. As he looked at Katherine, great sorrow clouded his eyes.
他看著凱瑟琳，滿眼憂傷。
來自柯林斯例句
5. "Oh, I despair sometimes," he says in mock sorrow.