喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture sad as the heavy, downward feeling inside you when something bad has happened — the corners of your mouth pull down, your chest feels low. Hold that one feeling and the rest follow: a thing that puts this feeling into you, a situation so poor it makes you feel this way, a life that looks low and lonely, and an informal sneer that calls something so poor it's almost .

可以把 sad 想成：碰上壞事時心裡那股往下沉的感覺——嘴角垮下來、胸口悶悶的。抓住這股「往下沉」的感覺，其餘用法就…更多收起可以把 sad 想成：碰上壞事時心裡那股往下沉的感覺——嘴角垮下來、胸口悶悶的。抓住這股「往下沉」的感覺，其餘用法就順下來了：一件「把這股感覺塞進你心裡」的事物，一個糟到讓人有這種感覺的處境，一個看起來低落又孤單的人生，以及一種帶嘲諷的口語用法，說某樣東西爛到幾乎讓人替它難過。

From the picture

糟糕·令人遺憾

順著「令人難過的事」再走一步：當一個情況糟到讓人覺得「唉，怎麼會這樣」，那份遺憾就讓 sad 用來說「這狀況很糟、很不應該」。

bad/unacceptable · adjective · A1

Very bad or not acceptable — used to show you think a situation is wrong.

糟糕的

孤單可憐的人生

把那股低落的感覺長在一個人的生活上：日子過得灰暗、孤單，整個人看起來就是一副「叫人替他難過」的樣子。

dull, lonely life · adjective · A1

Having a dull, lonely, or unhappy life — used about a person.

孤單可憐的

口語嘲諷：遜

把「可憐到讓人難過」拿來當口語嘲諷：說某樣東西或某個人爛、遜到幾乎可悲，帶著看不起的玩笑味。

pathetic (informal) · adjective · A1

Boring or not deserving any respect — an informal way to make fun of something.

遜的

片語：sadder but wiser

只活在固定片語 sadder but wiser 裡：吃了虧、難過過一場，但也因此學乖。當一塊片語記比較實在，不必硬從別的意思推。

sadder but wiser · adjective · A1

Used in the phrase 'sadder but wiser' to say you learned something from a bad experience.

記取教訓的

Also in this word

unhappy · adjective · A1

Feeling unhappy, especially because something bad has happened.

難過

causing unhappiness · adjective · A1

Making you feel unhappy — used about an event, story, or piece of news.

令人難過的

原始詞典資料21 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。

sadadj詞源 1/ˈsæd/

  • 1

    headingEmotionally negative.

    • She gets sad when he's away.
    • Firſt were we ſad, fearing you would not come, / Now ſadder that you come ſo vnprouided:[…]
  • 2

    headingEmotionally negative.

    • The puppy had a sad little face.
    • We need a sad man. Give us a sad man.” Tomo gave the look of a sad man, then followed with the body of a sad man. “That's it, more of that. can you manufacture a mole right here? Yes, a very ugly mole. Right here, on the chin.[…]
  • 3

    headingEmotionally negative.

    • It's a sad fact that most rapes go unreported.
    • The Great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, / For all their wars are merry and all their songs are sad.
  • 4

    headingEmotionally negative.

    • That's the saddest-looking pickup truck I've ever seen.
    • Heaven knows what cash he got, or blood he spilt, / A sad old fellow was he, if you please[…].
  • 5

    headingEmotionally negative.

    • […]this is either uſed crude, and called ſulphur vive, and is of a ſadder colour; or after depuration, ſuch as we have in magdeleons or rols of a lighter yellow.
    • sad-coloured clothes
  • 6

    obsoleteSated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary.

  • 7

    obsoleteSteadfast, valiant.

    • The fearefull newes that whilſt the flame doth but begin, Sad pollicie may ſerue to quench the fire: […]
  • 8

    obsoleteDignified, serious, grave.

    • Therfore it nedeth that better prouysion. Were founde for youthe by sad and wyse counsayle
    • Vproſe Sir Guyon, in bright armour clad, / And to his purpoſd iourney him prepar'd: / With him the Palmer eke in habit ſad, / Him ſelfe addreſt to that aduenture hard: […]
另外 4 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    obsoleteNaughty; troublesome; wicked.

    • Mr. Santon laughed, and merely said,—"Oh, you cruel beauty!" returning to his paper again; but, seated in the bay-window was one, who could not thus lightly look upon the conduct of the coquettish Winnie, for it was evident she was a sad coquette.
    • In ſuch places, it would not be doubted, that a grim Daniel Scroggins, and an aproned Sam Smith, might be found—ſad tipſy fellows, both of them, to whoſe ingenuity this or that mechanical improvement had been due.
  • 10

    slangUnfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable.

    • I can't believe you use drugs; you're so sad!
    • You’d have to be really sad to wear a shirt like that.
  • 11

    dialectalSoggy (to refer to pastries).

  • 12

    obsoleteHeavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard.

    • sad bread
    • […]his hand, more ſad then lomp of lead,[…]

sadverb詞源 1/ˈsæd/

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    archaicTo make melancholy; to sadden or grieve (someone).

    • 16??, John Webster, Appius and Virginia My father's wondrous pensive, and withal / With a suppress'd rage left his house displeas'd, / And so in post is hurried to the camp: / It sads me much; to expel which melancholy, / I have sent for company.

sadintj詞源 1/ˈsæd/

  • 1

    Expressing contempt, ridicule or disgust; bah!

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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。