mourn

英[mɔːn] 美[mɔrn]

反义词

第三人称单数: mourns;过去式: mourned;过去分词: mourned;现在分词: mourning;

mourn 哀悼，悲伤

来自古英语murnan,哀悼，悲伤，焦急，可能来自PIE*smer,记忆，词源同memory,martyr.可能来自比喻用法，即由记忆引申回想，哀伤，哀悼等。

mourn (v.): Old English murnan "to mourn, bemoan, long after," also "be anxious about, be careful" (class III strong verb; past tense mearn, past participle murnen), from Proto-Germanic *murnan "to remember sorrowfully" (cognates: Old Saxon mornon, Old High German mornen, Gothic maurnan "to mourn," Old Norse morna "to pine away"), probably from PIE root *(s)mer- "to remember" (see memory); or, if the Old Norse sense is the base one, from *mer- "to die, wither." Related: Mourned; mourning.

1. When the government is finally brought down, no one will mourn its passing.: 当政府最终垮台之日，将不会有人为它的消亡而悲哀。

2. As the nation continued to mourn, the new President of South Africa paid his own tribute.: 举国仍在哀悼之际，南非新任总统也表达了自己的怀念之情。

3. Blessed are they that mourn, for they -- they -- ": 有福的人是那些哀恸的人, 因为他们 —— 他们 —— ”