sad
adj
(-dder, -ddest)
1 showing or causing sorrow; unhappy 悲哀的; 忧愁的; 难过的
a sad look, event, story 忧愁的表情、 伤心的事件、 悲惨的故事
John is sad because his dog has died. 约翰因为自己的狗死了非常伤心.
I'm sad you're leaving. 你要走了, 我很难过.
It was a sad day for us all when the school closed down. 学校关闭那天, 我们都很悲痛.
Why is she looking so sad? 她为什麽愁容满面?
2 [attrib 作定语]
worthy of blame or criticism; bad 该受责备或批评的; 坏的
a sad state of affairs 很糟糕的情况
a sad case of cruelty 非常残忍的事.
3 making one feel pity or regret 令人遗憾或惋惜的
This once beautiful ship is in a sad condition now. 那麽漂亮的船现在成了这种样子了.
4 (idm 习语) ,sadder but `wiser having learnt sth important from a disappointing mistake or failure 从错误和失败吸取重要教训
The divorce left him a sadder but a wiser man. 他离婚是吃一堑长一智. sad to say (used esp at the beginning of a sentence 尤用於句首) unfortunately 不幸的是
Sad to say, she hasn't given us permission to do it. 不幸的是, 她没准许我们做这件事.
The reader's hair stands on end when he reads in the final pages of the novel that the heroine a dear old lady who had always been so kind to everybody, had, in her youth, poisoned every one of her five husbands.