woe

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义
英 /wəʊ/    美 /woʊ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness. countable,uncountable
    — Oh, woe is me!
  2. A close friend; a nigga, homie or bro. slang
  3. Calamity, trouble. countable,uncountable
    — And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!
  4. A curse; a malediction. countable,uncountable
    — Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice?
形容词 adj.
  1. Woeful; sorrowful obsolete
    — hys clerk was wo to do þat dede
感叹词 intj.
  1. An exclamation of grief. archaic
    — Miranda: O woe, the day.

词形变化

woes plural more woe comparative most woe superlative woes plural

词汇关系

近义词
affliction aggrievance distress grief grievance hardship misery ruth sadness sorrow undelight vexation woe wrong
反义词
benefit boon fortune joy laugh treat
上位词
accident disaster misdeed test
下位词
black day dark cloud injustice regret sob story
衍生词
for weal or woe in weal and woe tale of woe woebegone woe betide woeful woe is me woe is I woe to
相关词
oppression ordeal wringer woe is me

词源

From Middle English wo, woo, from Old English wā, wǣ, from Proto-West Germanic *wai (interjection), from Proto-Germanic *wai (“woe!”, interjection), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wáy (“oh!; ah!; woe!; alas!”, interjection).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots wae (“woe”), Cimbrian bèa (“woe!”), Dutch wee (“nauseating”), German Weh, Wehe (“misery, woe; pain”), Yiddish וויי (vey, “pain; woe”), Danish, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish ve (“woe”), Icelandic væl (“cry, wail”), væla (“to cry, wail; to complain”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌹 (wai, “woe!”); also Cornish gew, go (“woe!”), Welsh gwae (“misery, woe”), Catalan, Italian, and Portuguese guai (“woe!”), Ladino guay, גואי (“woe”), Latin vae (“woe”), Romanian vai (“woe”), Spanish guay (“way”), Ancient Greek οὐαί (ouaí, “woe!”), Albanian vaj (“woe!”), Latvian vai (“oh!”), Bulgarian уви́ (uví, “alas”), Russian увы́ (uvý, “alas!”), Serbo-Croatian авај, avaj (“alas!”), Armenian վայ (vay, “sorrow, woe”), Persian وای (vây, “woe”).
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