mournful

[US]/ˈmɔːnfl/
[UK]/ˈmɔːrnfl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. 哀痛的, 令人傷心的

Example Sentences

the mournful sound of a train whistle.

火車低鬱的汽笛聲

her large, mournful eyes.

她哀傷的大眼睛。

gave her a mournful look.

悲傷地看了她一眼

he emitted a short mournful squall.

他發出短促的一聲哀叫。

the mournful sound did nothing to squash her high spirits.

這悲哀的聲音根本無法抑制她高昂的情緒。

"'Mr Eames,' he said, in a mournful voice, 'you have just killed that child!'"

"`伊姆斯先生,'他以悲傷的聲調說,`你剛剛把那個小孩壓死了!'"

Real-world Examples

" You have dropped into your old mournful key."

“你又唱你那悲傷的老調了。”

Source: Returning Home

The sea gushed forward and backward; it was a mournful sound.

海浪反覆拍擊着岩石,發出悲愴的聲響。

Source: 7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Since that mournful period, a great change had come over me.

從那悲傷的時刻以後,我的生活也已經發生了很大的變化。

Source: American Original Language Arts Volume 4

" Ah me" ! once voice said, and another said, " Oh, mournful day" .

" 唉!" 一個聲音說。 另一個聲音說:" 哦,傷心的一天。"

Source: Peter Pan

There's something mournful in his eyes when he looks back at Ove.

他看向歐維時,眼裏露出些悲傷。

Source: A man named Ove decides to die.

Their strange faces, which seemed mournful and merry all at once, looked into his.

他們那古怪的面容,又悲哀又快樂,都注視着凱斯賓。

Source: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

Hence the expression, serious even to mournful, that shadowed his film-star-handsome face on the course.

所以,他表情嚴肅,甚至略帶悲傷,這讓球場上他那張原本影星般英俊的臉不那麼英俊了。

Source: The Economist - Comprehensive

There was a long pause, broken only by the mournful creak of the floorboards below Harry's feet.

一陣長長的沉默,只有哈利腳下的地板發出哀怨的嘎吱聲。

Source: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Virginia Woolf's London in “Mrs Dalloway” (1925) is mournful, offering little succour after the first world war.

維吉尼亞·伍爾芙《達洛維夫人》(1925)中的倫敦死氣沉沉,不給一戰結束後的人們半分慰藉。

Source: The Economist - Arts

A listener hears the mournful feeling cowboys had for the prairie in this song called, The Dying Cowboy.

一位聽客在一首名爲《垂死的牛仔》的歌中,聽到了牛仔們對大草原的哀傷之情。

Source: VOA Special September 2019 Collection

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