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grief-stricken

/greef-strik-uhn/US // ˈgrifˌstrɪk ən //

悲痛欲绝,悲痛欲绝的,哀痛欲绝,悲痛欲绝的人

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : overwhelmed by grief; deeply afflicted or sorrowful.

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Examples

  • Though tissues are present and tears are not uncommon, the Dinner Parties are distinctly not grief counseling or group therapy.

  • It warps them and yet makes them, and horrifies them both as it does so—just as grief does.

  • Energy is sucked from them, the world around them becomes impossible—the Babadook of grief and loss exerts its force everywhere.

  • The grief in this house is extreme of course; this is a horror movie, after all.

  • Amelia says some truly terrible things to Sam, supposedly inhabited by the Babadook but really consumed in grief.

  • A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.

  • Two artillery subalterns who had fought their way through a mob stricken with panic for the moment, soon arrived.

  • They wanted Papa and Mamma, gone to Bombay beyond the seas, and their grief while it lasted was without remedy.

  • She didn't move for a minute, and the shocked, stricken look in her eyes grew more intense.

  • Then I hesitated no longer, but turned away and left her alone with her grief; it was not for me to comfort her.