If you are melancholic, you feel a deep, quiet sadness that stays with you. It is not one cry and then you are fine. The feeling sits on you, like grey weather that will not move.

If如果 you are melancholic你是melancholic（憂鬱的）, you feel你會感覺到 a deep, quiet sadness一種深沉、安靜的悲傷 that stays with you一直留在你身上的. It它不是 is not one cry and then you are fine哭一場、然後就沒事了. The feeling這種感覺 sits on you就一直留在你身上, like grey weather that will not move像一片不會散去的陰天.

People use this word more in books, films, and careful speech than in the school corridor; a friend is more likely to say you look down or blue.

People人們 use this word用這個字 more in books, films, and careful speech比較常在書、電影，和講究用字的場合 than in the school corridor比較少在學校走廊上; a friend朋友 is more likely to say比較可能會說 you look down or blue你看起來 down 或 blue（低落）.

You can call a person melancholic, and you can also call music, a face, or a place melancholic when it gives you that same slow sadness.

You你 can call a person melancholic可以說一個人是 melancholic, and you can also call你也可以說 music, a face, or a place melancholic音樂、一張臉，或一個地方是 melancholic when it gives you that same slow sadness只要它帶給你同樣那種緩慢的悲傷.

Older writers used it for a kind of character: a thoughtful person whose nature was to be sad. Doctors today do not use it as the name of an illness — they have other words for that — but the old idea is still inside the word.

Older writers以前的作家 used it for a kind of character會用它來指一種性格: a thoughtful person whose nature was to be sad一個天性容易悲傷、愛思考的人. Doctors today現在的醫生 do not use it as the name of an illness不會用它來當作某種病的名稱 — they have other words for that他們有別的詞 — but the old idea is still inside the word但這個舊有的想法還是藏在這個字裡面.

As a noun, a melancholic is a person who is often this way.

As a noun當名詞用的時候, a melancholic melancholic指的 is a person who is often this way是常常這樣的人.