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Poignancy is the sad, tender quality itself — the power a moment, a story, or a picture has to make a sharp kind of pity or longing rise up in you. We say "the poignancy of the last scene" when that scene does not only make you sad, but stays with you, often because love or beauty is mixed in with the loss.
Poignancy心酸感 is the sad, tender quality itself指的就是那種傷感又溫柔的特質本身 — the power a moment, a story, or a picture has—一個瞬間、一則故事或一張照片所擁有的力量 to make a sharp kind of pity or longing rise up in you能在你心裡激起一種強烈的憐惜或懷念之情。We say “the poignancy of the last scene”我們會說「the poignancy of the last scene」 when that scene does not only make you sad當那個場景不只是讓你難過,but stays with you而是會一直留在你心裡,often because love or beauty is mixed in with the loss通常是因為愛或美混雜在那份失落裡。
It is the noun; the matching describing word is poignant. You will hear it in book and film talk more than in the street.
It它 is the noun是名詞;the matching describing word is poignant對應的形容詞是poignant。You will hear it你會聽到這個字 in book and film talk出現在談書或談電影的場合 more than in the street而不是在街頭日常對話裡。
Though actually, it is not a bigger, way to say "pain". Pain can be loud and simple; poignancy is quieter, and it usually needs a human story behind it — a goodbye, an old photograph, a life that did not get to finish.
Though actually不過其實,it is not a bigger, fancier way to say “pain”它不是「pain」的一種比較誇張、文雅的說法。Pain can be loud and simplePain可以很直接很單純,poignancy is quieter而poignancy比較安靜含蓄,and it usually needs a human story behind it背後通常需要一個關於人的故事 — a goodbye, an old photograph, a life that did not get to finish——一場告別、一張舊照片,或一個沒能走完的人生。
組成poignant (making you feel a sharp, tender sadness) + -ancy (the quality or state of being that way).
同家族的字
- poignantthe describing word; poignancy is the feeling or quality itself
- poignantlythe adverb: doing something in that sad, touching way
原始詞典資料1 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。
poignancynoun/ˈpɔɪnjən(t)si/
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The quality of being poignant.
- The Conan O’Brien-penned half-hour has the capacity to rip our collective hearts out the way the cute, funny bad girl next door does to Bart when she reveals that her new boyfriend is Jimbo Jones, but the show keeps shying away from genuine emotion in favor of jokes that, while overwhelmingly funny, detract from the poignancy and the emotional intimacy of the episode.
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。