- 1厭世（感）、對人生感到疲乏無趣。注意：中文的「厭世」年輕人常拿來開玩笑，這個英文字比較沉重、也比較文氣
World-weariness is the tired, flat feeling of someone who has seen too much of life and is no longer by any of it. It is not sadness about one thing that went wrong, and it is not being sleepy. It is a settled mood: nothing surprises you, nothing seems worth the effort, you have watched people make the same mistakes too many times.
It is an uncountable noun, so no *a* and no plural: "a note of world-weariness in his voice", "the world-weariness of her later poems". You will find it in book reviews, in writing about films and music, and in descriptions of characters — much more often on the page than in speech. If you said it at lunch, you would sound like you were quoting something.
English has a mixed feeling about it. Sometimes it is sympathetic: the person has genuinely lived through a lot. Sometimes it is a mild criticism: a young person acting bored with the world to seem interesting. The sentence around it tells you which one is meant.
組成world-weary + -ness. The suffix -ness turns an adjective into the name of a quality or state (kind → kindness), so this is the state of being world-weary.
同家族的字
- world-wearythe adjective this noun is built from
- wearythe same weary = tired, worn out
- wearinessthe same weary + -ness, without world
原始詞典資料1 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。
world-wearinessnoun
- 1
The state or characteristic of being world-weary; a feeling of fatigue or exhaustion with the state of the world or with one's life.
- Call me blasé—I do not mind, if by blasé is meant the world-weariness, intellectual, artistic, sensational, which can come to a young man of thirty. For I was thirty, and I was weary of all these things—weary and in doubt.
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