grieve
verbVerb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they grieve | |
| he / she / it grieves | |
| past simple grieved | |
| past participle grieved | |
| -ing form grieving |
- [intransitive, transitive]
to feel very sad, especially because somebody has died （尤指因某人的去世而）悲伤，悲痛，伤心 - grieve (for/over somebody/something)
They are still grieving for their dead child. 他们还在为死去的孩子伤心。 grieving relatives 悲痛欲绝的亲戚 - grieve somebody/something
She grieved the death of her husband. 她为丈夫的去世而悲伤。
Extra ExamplesTopics Feelingsc2She had grieved deeply for her father. 她为父亲离世悲痛不已。 He spoke on behalf of the grieving families. 他代表悲恸欲绝的亲属讲了话。 The couple are grieving over the loss of their daughter. 夫妇俩正为丧女伤心欲绝。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- deeply
- privately
- silently
- …
- for
- over
- grieve (for/over somebody/something)
- [transitive] (formal)
to make you feel very sad 使悲伤；使悲痛；使伤心 - it grieves somebody that…
It grieved him that he could do nothing to help her. 他因无法帮助她而伤心。 - grieve somebody
Their lack of interest grieved her. 他们不感兴趣使她很痛心。 - it grieves somebody to do something
It grieved her to leave. 她要走了，心里很难过。
- it grieves somebody that…
Word OriginMiddle English (also in the sense ‘harm, oppress’): from Old French grever ‘burden, encumber’, based on Latin gravare, from gravis ‘heavy, grave’.
Idioms
what the eye doesn’t see (the heart doesn’t grieve over)
- (saying)
if a person does not know about something that they would normally think was bad, then it cannot hurt them 眼不见（心不烦）；眼不见为净 What does it matter if I use his flat while he’s away? What the eye doesn’t see…! 我趁他外出时用他的公寓有什么关系呢？反正他又看不见！