中文词源
sadden 使伤心，使难过
sad,伤心的，难过的，-en,使。
英语词源
- sadden (v.)
- "to make sorrowful," 1620s, from sad + -en (1). Earlier verb was simply sade, from Old English sadian, which also could be the immediate source of the modern verb. Intransitive meaning "to become sad" is from 1718. Related: Saddened; saddening.
权威例句
- 1. You can sigh away half your youth if you choose to allow failed relationship to sadden you.
- 如果你陷于失败的伤感中,你就会使前半生在叹息中度过.
- 2. Don't sadden your friends and gladden your enemies.
- 勿使亲者痛仇者快。
- 3. Do not sadden your friends and gladden your enemies.
- 勿使亲者痛仇者快.
- 4. That dark Egyptian seems to me to sadden the very sun.
- 在我看来那个阴森的埃及人似乎会使太阳都变得黯淡无光.
- 5. It is something that can inspire as well as sadden people.
- 爱情能够激励一个人也能使人悲伤.