Tragic

(adj.) very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction; 'a tragic face'; 'a tragic plight'; 'a tragic accident' .

(adj.) of or relating to or characteristic of tragedy; 'tragic hero' .

整理:理查德

• The least that you owe her is to make it clear to the whole world that she was in no way, directly or indirectly, responsible for his tragic end. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Her face had grown as sombre as a tragic mask. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• His son had been killed in a very tragic manner, which Herodotus relates, but which we will not describe here. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• And the tragic poet is an imitator, and therefore, like all other imitators, he is thrice removed from the king and from the truth? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Let us say nothing about it to him till the plan is settled, then I'll run away before he can collect his wits and be tragic. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• It told how two Englishmen who had been traveling with a woman had met with a tragic end. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Neither are comic and tragic actors the same; yet all these things are but imitations. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• A tragic poet, that would represent his heroes as very ingenious and witty in their misfortunes, would never touch the passions. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• What would to-day be regarded by an aeronaut as a slight setback seemed at that moment like a tragic failure. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• There may be tragic economic struggles, grim grapplings of race with race and class with class. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Political life, they felt, had ceased to be the urgent and tragic thing it had once been; it had become a polite comedy. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Majestic gloom and tragic pomp attended the decease of wretched humanity. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Some of the most deeply tragic and romantic, some of the most terrible incidents, have also their parallels in reality. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• To rant, to rave, to be tragic, to make situations--it was all too late. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Alfred's serious air shewed that he still revolved the tragic story related by the Italian boy. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Her features are not tragic features, and she walks too quick, and speaks too quick, and would not keep her countenance. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• The development for which my friend had asked came in a quicker and an infinitely more tragic form than he could have imagined. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• And the tragic poet is an imitator, and, like every other imitator, is thrice removed from the king and from the truth. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Salt instead of sugar, and the cream is sour, replied Meg with a tragic gesture. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Her face had taken on a look of such tragic courage that he felt like bowing himself down at her feet. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• The strong, masterful personality of Holmes dominated the tragic scene, and all were equally puppets in his hands. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The girl had wept, and then, too frightened, had turned aside to avoid any more tragic eventuality. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The glare from the jeweller's window, deepening the pallour of her face, gave to its delicate lines the sharpness of a tragic mask. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Are not the tragic poets wise who magnify and exalt the tyrant, and say that he is wise by association with the wise? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Over the fireplace was a magnificent trophy of weapons, one of which had been used on that tragic night. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Looking from one of them he could discern a pale, tragic face watching him drive away. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Nor can I suppose that when Mrs. Casaubon is discovered in a fit of weeping six weeks after her wedding, the situation will be regarded as tragic. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• It was tragic, but not, by the scale of universal history, a great tragedy. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It seemed to be in Madame Olenska's mysterious faculty of suggesting tragic and moving possibilities outside the daily run of experience. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Imitation is only a kind of play or sport, and the tragic poets, whether they write in Iambic or in Heroic verse, are imitators in the highest degree? 柏拉图. 理想国.

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