Word · Frequency #20525
heartache
心痛；心碎；悲伤
intense sorrow caused by the loss of a loved one, especially by death.
- 1.
Emotional distress or pain, often caused by a loved one or their absence.
情感上的痛苦或悲伤,通常由爱人或他们的缺席引起
- 2.
intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death)
丧亲之痛
情感上的痛苦或悲伤,通常由爱人或他们的缺席引起；丧亲之痛；心痛；悲叹
In use
After their breakup, she felt a deep heartache that lasted for months.
The heartache of losing his childhood home never really went away.
Listening to old songs always brings back the heartaches of my first love.
heartache over something
常用于表示对某事感到悲痛。
She felt great heartache over the loss of her pet.
她对失去宠物感到极大的心痛。
cause heartache
cause heartache 表示导致心痛。
The breakup caused him deep heartache.
分手给他带来了深深的悲伤。
suffer heartache
suffer heartache 强调经历心痛。
Connections
Collocations
- cause heartache
- 引起心痛；令人伤心
- Losing a close friend can cause heartache that lasts for months.失去一位亲密朋友可能会引起持续数月的心痛。
- the heartache of loss
- 失去之痛
- She wrote a poem about the heartache of losing her grandmother.她写了一首关于失去祖母之痛的诗。
- heartache over
- 为……而伤心
- He felt great heartache over the end of their relationship.他为他们关系的结束感到非常伤心。
- endure heartache
- 忍受心痛
- After the divorce, he had to endure the heartache of being apart from his children.离婚后，他不得不忍受与孩子们分离的心痛。
- unbearable heartache
- 难以忍受的心痛
- The news of his death brought her unbearable heartache.他的死讯给她带来了难以忍受的心痛。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
联想：heart（心）+ ache（痛），心上之痛即heartache，指情感上的悲伤或心碎。
Context & Register
语域：neutral 常见场景：everyday conversation、literary or reflective writing、personal storytelling heartache 多用于描述由爱情或失去亲人引起的持续内心痛苦，比较常见于日常交流和文学、回忆性写作中。正式程度不高不低，口语和书面语都可使用；在技术性语境中较少见。
Pronunciation & Spelling
与 heartache 中 -ache 发音相同的词有 ache、bake、make、take，它们都以 /eɪk/ 结尾，形成真押韵；heart 拼写开头相同，读 /hɑrt/，但不押韵；hard 拼写近似，读 /hɑrd/，也不是押韵。注意 heart 中的 ear 读 /ɑr/，hard 中的 ar 也读 /ɑr/，但结尾辅音不同。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 1，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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