dolour

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈdɒlə/|/ˈdəʊlə/    美 /ˈdoʊlɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow. UK,literary,uncountable
    — Who dyes the vtmoſt dolor doth abye, / But who that liues, is lefte to waile his loſſe: / So life is loſſe, and death felicity.
  2. In economics and utilitarianism: a unit of pain used to theoretically weigh people's outcomes. UK,countable
    — Supposedly, utilitarians are able to add and subtract hedons (units of pleasure) and dolors (units of pain) without any signs of cognitive or affective distress […]

词形变化

dolours plural dolor alternative

词汇关系

相关词
dol dole doloriferous dolorific dolorimeter doloroso dolorous dolorously dolorousness endolour undolorous pain

词源

From Middle English dolour (“physical pain, agony, suffering; painful disease; anguish, grief, misery, sorrow; grieving for sins, contrition; hardship, misery, trouble; cause of grief or suffering, affliction”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman dolour, Old French dolour, dolor, dulur (“pain”) (modern French douleur (“pain; distress”)), from Latin dolor (“ache, hurt, pain; anguish, grief, sorrow; anger, indignation, resentment”), from doleō (“to hurt, suffer physical pain; to deplore, grieve, lament”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *delh₁- (“to divide, split”)) + -or (suffix forming third-declension masculine abstract nouns). The English word is a doublet of dol.
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