Word · Frequency #11736
woe
/wəu/
noun
悲痛；悲哀
intense mournfulness
- 1.
Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.
极度悲伤或痛苦；引起悲伤的不幸
- 2.
Calamity, trouble.
灾难,麻烦
- 3.
A curse; a malediction.
诅咒；咒骂
极度悲伤或痛苦；引起悲伤的不幸；灾难,麻烦；诅咒；咒骂；悲哀；悲痛
In use
He spoke of his failures with such woe that we all fell silent.
The sad film left me with a feeling of woe that lasted all evening.
She wrote a poem full of woe about the end of summer.
be filled with woe
表示极度悲伤的状态。
She was filled with woe after the loss.
失去后她充满了悲痛。
the woes of something
woe的复数形式常用来指代多种不幸或困难。
The woes of modern life can be overwhelming.
现代生活的苦难可能令人不堪重负。
bring woe to someone
The war brought woe to millions.
Connections
Collocations
- financial woes
- 财务困境；经济困难
- The company's financial woes forced it to close several stores.公司的财务困境迫使其关闭了几家门店。
- tale of woe
- 悲惨遭遇；不幸的故事
- She told me a long tale of woe about her lost luggage.她向我讲述了她丢失行李的悲惨遭遇。
- woe is me
- 我命苦啊；我真倒霉
- Woe is me, I have to work on Saturday.我真倒霉，星期六还得上班。
- a litany of woes
- 一连串的苦难；接连不断的倒霉事
- The report listed a litany of woes facing the region.报告列举了该地区面临的一连串问题。
- domestic woes
- 国内困境；家庭烦恼
- The president hoped to distract attention from domestic woes.总统希望转移人们对国内困境的关注。
Idioms & figurative uses
Learner notes
Memory Tip
woe 读音像‘喔’，想象遭逢不幸时发出的哀叹，就是悲痛。
Context & Register
语域：formal 常见场景：formal writing、literary texts、speeches woe 是比较正式、偏书面的词，多用于文学或正式语境；日常口语中较少见，口语里更常用 sadness、trouble 等。
Pronunciation & Spelling
doe、foe、toe、hoe、roe 都与 woe 押韵，其 oe 均发 /əʊ/；woo 拼写相近，但读 /wuː/，与 woe 不押韵。
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。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.