核心畫面
You can think of it as the heavy sadness that settles in after a loss — most typically when someone you love has died. Unlike sad, it has weight and takes up time. English then lends that weight out: to the events that cause it, to everyday trouble that wears you down, and to a few fixed phrases where the sadness has drained away entirely.
可以想成：grief 是失去之後沉到底的那種難過，最典型的場合是親近的人走了。它不像 sad 那樣可大可小，而是有份…更多收起
可以想成：grief 是失去之後沉到底的那種難過，最典型的場合是親近的人走了。它不像 sad 那樣可大可小，而是有份量、會佔據一個人一段時間的東西。從這個重量往外，英文把它借去指造成難過的那件事，也借去講日常那種磨人的麻煩，最後還固定成幾句片語——在那些片語裡，悲傷幾乎已經蒸發掉了。原始詞典資料4 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。
griefnoun/ɡɹiːf/
- 1
Suffering, hardship.
- The neighbour's teenagers give me grief every time they see me.
- 2
Emotional pain, generally arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.
- She was worn out from so much grief.
- The betrayal caused Jeff grief.
- 3
A cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; a trial.
- Surely, he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.
griefverb/ɡɹiːf/
- 1
gamesgamingTo deliberately harass and annoy or cause grief to other players of a game in order to interfere with their enjoyment of it; especially, to do this as one’s primary activity in the game, and especially by exploiting game mechanics without using cheats to do so, often through acts of destruction or vandalism.
- While ban and his pals stand squarely in this tradition, they also stand for something new: the rise of organized griefing, grounded in online message-board communities and thick with in-jokes, code words, taboos, and an increasingly articulate sense of purpose. No longer just an isolated pathology, griefing has developed a full-fledged culture.
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。