melancholy
adj. 忧郁的；使人悲伤的
n. 忧郁；悲哀；愁思
n.
忧郁；悲哀；愁思；闷闷不乐
adj.
忧郁的；悲伤的；凄凉的；阴沉的
双语释义
n.(名词)[U]忧郁，悲哀 feeling of sadness
adj.(形容词)(令人)悲哀的；(令人)沮丧的 very sad or making you feel sadness
英英释义
melancholy[ 'melənkəli ]
n.
a feeling of thoughtful sadness
a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
同义词：black bile
adj.
characterized by or causing or expressing sadness
"growing more melancholy every hour"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"
同义词：melancholic
grave or even gloomy in character
同义词：sombersombre
同近义词辨析
melancholy, unhappy, blue, sad, sorrowful, gloomy这组词都有“忧伤的，悲哀的，伤感的”的意思，其区别是：
melancholy指经常性的忧郁或悲哀，多用于文学描写中。
unhappy多指日常生活中遇到不如意的事而感到不愉快、不幸，侧重指心理状态。
blue非正式用词，语气较随便，指较强烈的忧郁或沮丧。
sad最常用词，泛指一切形式的悲伤，着重暂时的不幸或感觉的忧伤。
sorrowful多指因丧失亲人等原因所引起的悲哀，也指由于错误而产生的悔恨交加的心情。
gloomy指愁眉苦脸，令他人也感到扫兴。
双语例句
用作名词(n.)
Melancholy is the preponderant mood of the poem.
忧郁的感情是该诗的基调。
The melancholy of Antonio is caused by the serious social background rather than his own personality.
剧中安东尼奥的忧郁不仅是个性使然,更具有沉重的社会背景
Her sweet words dispersed his melancholy.
她的温柔话语驱散了他的忧愁。
There in the melancholy, in the dreariness, Bertha found a bitter fascination.
在这里，在阴郁、倦怠之中，伯莎发现了一种刺痛人心的魅力。
用作形容词(adj.)
You must rid yourself of this melancholy mood.
你一定要摆脱这种忧愁情绪。
She fell into a train of melancholy thoughts.
于是她陷进了一种连续不绝的忧郁思想里。
A funeral is a melancholy occasion.
葬礼是一个令人忧伤的场合。
The church bell clashed its melancholy note.
教堂的钟敲出悲凉的调子。
The receipt of her letter threw me into melancholy state.
一收到她的来信，我便陷入深深的忧郁中。
权威例句
The Melancholy of RaceMelancholy gender—refused identification.
The Nature of Melancholy. From Aristotle to Kristeva.
The Age of Melancholy: Major Depression and its Social Origins
Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders by Adam M. McKeown
The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief by Anne Anlin Cheng
Saturn and Melancholy: Studies in the History of Natural Philosophy, Religion and Art
The Melancholy Science: An Introduction to the Thought of Theodor W. Adorno. by Gillian Rose
Are we entering an age of melancholy? Depressive illnesses in a prospective epidemiological study over 25 years: the Lundby Study, S...
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melancholy
melancholy: [14] Etymologically, melancholy means ‘black gall’. The word comes via Old French melancolie and late Latin melancholia from Greek melagkholíā, a compound formed from mélās ‘black’ (source also of English melanin [19] and melanoma [19]) and kholé ‘bile’ (a relative of English gall). This ‘black bile’ was one of the four bodily substances or ‘humours’ whose relative preponderance, according to medieval medical theory, determined a person’s physical and mental state. Excess of black bile was thought to cause depression – hence the modern meaning of melancholy.=> gall, melanoma
melancholy (n.)
c. 1300, "condition characterized by sullenness, gloom, irritability," from Old French melancolie "black bile, ill disposition, anger, annoyance" (13c.), from Late Latin melancholia, from Greek melankholia "sadness," literally (excess of) "black bile," from melas (genitive melanos) "black" (see melanin) + khole "bile" (see Chloe). Medieval physiology attributed depression to excess of "black bile," a secretion of the spleen and one of the body's four "humors." The Latin word also is the source of Spanish melancolia, Italian melancolia, German Melancholie, Danish melankoli, etc. Old French variant malencolie (also in Middle English) is by false association with mal "sickness."
melancholy (adj.)
late 14c., "with or caused by black bile; sullen, gloomy, sad," from melancholy (n.); sense of "deplorable" (of a fact or state of things) is from 1710.
1. sweet poetic melancholy
美妙的诗意般的忧郁
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
2. But that three-day combination of events had left him exhausted and melancholy.
但这三天来这么多事情搅在一起把他搞得精疲力竭，意志消沉。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
3. After a short inspection of the melancholy ruins they retraced their steps.
他们看了一看那片凄惨的瓦砾堆，就动身往回走。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
4. His mood inclined to melancholy and retrospection.
他不禁感慨系之，俯仰今昔起来。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
5. Are you in character somber, melancholy, or neglectful?
你生性阴沉、忧郁，或是不修边幅吗？
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
6. How sweet that strain of melancholy horn!
多么甜蜜，号角那伤感的旋律！
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
7. All at once I fell into a state of profound melancholy.
我突然深深地陷入了忧思。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
8. Argentina, the second largest nation, remained in melancholy stagnation and disarray.
第二大国阿根廷则仍处于可悲的停滞不前和一片混乱之中。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
9. chase away (dissipate) melancholy
消除（驱散）忧愁
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
10. Her sweet words dispersed his melancholy.
她的温柔话语驱散了他的忧愁。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
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