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/ˈsædnəs/
The feeling you have when you are sad, or the state of being sad — often when a happy time is ending, or when you feel sorry about someone else's unhappiness.
難過；傷心
核心畫面
You can picture it as the heavy, quiet feeling that settles in you when something good is over, or when you see someone else hurting — not sharp pain, but a weight that slows you down and takes the brightness out of things.
可以想成心裡沉下去的那一塊：好的事情結束了、或看見別人不好過的時候，胸口那種安靜的重量。它不像痛那樣尖銳，比較像整個…更多收起
可以想成心裡沉下去的那一塊：好的事情結束了、或看見別人不好過的時候，胸口那種安靜的重量。它不像痛那樣尖銳，比較像整個人慢下來、眼前的東西都失去了顏色。sadness 是名詞，指的就是「難過」這個感覺本身，或人處在難過裡的那個狀態——所以英文才會說 a feeling of sadness、with great sadness，把它當成一樣可以描述、可以帶著走的東西。原始詞典資料2 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。
sadnessnoun/ˈsædnəs/
- 1
The state or emotion of being sad.
- But sorrow that is couch'd in seeming gladness Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness.
- I mean not then under the name of Sadneſs to defend effeminate Bewailings and Lamentations; let them that ſubject themſelves to this weakeſt Impatience, be alſo ſubject to the Lycian Law, that bound theſe kind of Lamenters to be array'd like Women: […]
- 2
An event in one's life that causes sadness.
- She has experienced many sadnesses in her forty years.
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。