Word · Frequency #11736
woes
/wəu/
noun
悲痛；悲哀
woes is the plural of woe.
核心释义
intense mournfulness
- 1.
极度悲伤或痛苦；引起悲伤的不幸
Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.
- 2.
灾难,麻烦
Calamity, trouble.
- 3.
诅咒；咒骂
A curse; a malediction.
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
用法In use
He spoke of his failures with such woe that we all fell silent.
用法提示：woe 作不可数名词，意为“悲痛”，在句中表示谈话时流露出的强烈悲伤。
The sad film left me with a feeling of woe that lasted all evening.
用法提示：woe 作名词，指“悲哀、悲痛”，这里描述看完电影后持续的情绪。
She wrote a poem full of woe about the end of summer.
用法提示：woe 作不可数名词，意为“悲痛”，修饰诗歌中蕴含的悲伤情感。
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。
相关词与表达Connections
搭配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
学习提示Learner notes
记忆技巧Memory Tip
woe 读音像‘喔’，想象遭逢不幸时发出的哀叹，就是悲痛。
语境与语域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。
发音与拼写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。
用法优先级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。
一起学习词形Learn the forms together
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