sigh

名词 n. 动词 v. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义
发音 sī

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A deep, prolonged audible inhale and exhale of breath; as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing.
    — To Pollyanna the air was all the more stifling after that cool breath of the out of doors; but she did not complain. She only drew a long quivering sigh.
  2. a manifestation of grief; a lament. figuratively
  3. A person who is bored. Cockney,slang
动词 v.
  1. To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like. intransitive
    — When she saw it wasn't damaged, she sighed with relief.
  2. To lament; to grieve. intransitive
    — He sighed deeply in his spirit.
  3. To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over. transitive
    — Ages to come, and men unborn, / Shall bless her name, and sigh her fate.
  4. To make a sound like sighing. intransitive
    — The wind sighed in the trees.
  5. To exhale (the breath) in sighs. transitive
    — She sighed a sigh that was nearly a groan.
  6. To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs. transitive
    — "I guess I have no choice," she sighed.
感叹词 intj.
  1. An expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like, often used in casual written contexts.
    — Sigh, I'm so bored at work today.

词形变化

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词汇关系

衍生词
besigh outsigh sigher le sigh sighful sighless sighlike sigh of relief yawn-sigh

词源

词源 1
From Middle English sighen (“to sigh”), back-formation from sighte, past tense form of siken, from Old English sīcan, from Proto-West Germanic *sīkan, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seykʷ- (“to pour out”).
词源 2
From Middle English sighe (“sigh”), from sighen (“to sigh”) (see ).
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