Melancholy

(noun.) a feeling of thoughtful sadness.

(noun.) a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed.

(adj.) characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; 'growing more melancholy every hour'; 'her melancholic smile'; 'we acquainted him with the melancholy truth' .

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• His walk was soft; his voice was melancholy; his long lanky fingers were hooked like claws. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• No, indeed, sir,' returned Mrs. Sparsit, with a gentle melancholy upon her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• I rose early, but felt unusually melancholy. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Her cordial look, when she put out her hand to him, softened his expression, but only with melancholy. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• There is something melancholy in it, and I don't know why. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• This idea increased my melancholy, for I hate, and always did hate, anything like London in miniature. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The corners of the Sergeant's melancholy mouth curled up, and he looked hard in my face, just as he had looked in the garden. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Then he gave me such a detail of misfortunes now existing, or that were soon to exist, that he left me half melancholy. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Fat or thin, laughing or melancholy, on horseback or the music-stool, it was all the same to the Major. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• A long sigh floated past them on the still waters, like the melancholy cry of a bird, and died away sadly in the distance. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• It is a melancholy consideration. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Little did my poor aunt imagine what a gush of devout thankfulness thrilled through me as she approached the close of her melancholy story. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• You say yourself there is nothing to be done there: everybody is so clean and well off, it makes you quite melancholy. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• If you please, Lady Jane, you will write a letter to Mrs. Rawdon Crawley, requesting her presence upon this melancholy occasion. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Can you not give me some understandable reason for this melancholy which renders your life so bitter? 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.

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