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Dolour is a heavy, old word for a deep sadness — the kind that sits in the chest, not a small bad mood. Poets and old books use it; almost nobody says it at the dinner table. The British spelling is dolour; Americans write dolor. Though actually, that American spelling can also show up in medical Latin for physical pain, which is a different doorway into the same old root. For , treat dolour as 'great grief' in a literary voice.
悲痛、哀痛
組成From Latin dolor (pain, grief), from dolere (to hurt, to grieve), via French. English added the old noun ending that gives us the -our spelling in British writing.
同家族的字
- dolefulfrom the same old stream of grief; doleful means looking or sounding very sad
- condolencefrom the same Latin 'to grieve'; condolence is the kind words you offer when someone is hurting
- dolorousthe adjective: a dolorous song is a very sad one
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
dolournoun/ˈdɒlə/
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literaryAnguish, grief, misery, or sorrow.
- Who dyes the vtmoſt dolor doth abye, / But who that liues, is lefte to waile his loſſe: / So life is loſſe, and death felicity.
- But for all this thou ſhalt haue as many Dolors for thy Daughters, as thou canſt tell in a yeare.
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economicsethicshuman-sciencesIn economics and utilitarianism: a unit of pain used to theoretically weigh people's outcomes.
- Supposedly, utilitarians are able to add and subtract hedons (units of pleasure) and dolors (units of pain) without any signs of cognitive or affective distress […]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。