- 1(為某人)悲痛、哀悼；使傷心
To grieve means to feel deep sadness, especially because someone you love has died. It can also mean to cause someone sadness or trouble - 'it grieves me to see him so unhappy' is a formal way of saying something makes you sad.
From the word’s history
From Middle English greven, from Old French grever 'to burden', from Latin gravāre, from gravis 'heavy'.
經古法文 grever「加重負擔」，源自拉丁文 gravis「重」。
組成From Latin gravis (heavy), through Old French grever (to burden) - the idea of being 'weighed down' by sadness.
同家族的字
- graveshares the Latin root gravis (heavy) - a 'grave' situation is a serious, heavy one
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
Grievename
- 1
A surname.
grieveverb詞源 1/ɡɹiːv/
- 1
To cause sorrow or distress to.
- Thy maidens griev'd themselves at my concern.
- 2
To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for.
- to grieve one's fate
- 3
To experience grief.
- 4
archaicTo harm.
- 5
To submit or file a grievance (about).
- Even if the executive director rules against the employee on appeal, the employee can still grieve the termination to the superintendent followed by an appeal to the … Board of Trustees.
grievenoun詞源 2/ɡɹiːv/
- 1
obsoleteA governor of a town or province.
- 2
A manager or steward, e.g. of a farm.
- 1559-1566, John Knox, History of the Reformation in Scotland [A prince] is nothing but a servant, overseer, or grieve, and not the head, which is a title belonging only to Christ.
- [T]heir children were horsewhipped by the grieve when found trespassing; […]
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