lacrimae rerum

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈlækɹɪmaɪ ˈɹeɪɹəm/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The “tears of things”; the inherent tragedy of existence. plural,plural-only,rare
    — Louis Macneice in a note on Eliot and the Adolescent remarks that “anyhow lacrimae rerum are not a monopoly of the mature adult.” Indeed the lacrimae rerum of the adolescent are likely to be far more bitter and consuming than those of the mature adult learning to care and not to care.

词形变化

lacrimæ rerum alternative lachrymae rerum alternative lachrymæ rerum alternative

词源

An allusion to Virgil’s Aeneid (29–19 BC), book I, line 462; Latin: lacrimae (“tears”, the nominative plural form of lacrima, “tear”) + rērum (“of things”, the genitive plural form of rēs, “thing”) = “tears of things”.
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