woe is me

感叹词 intj.
中文释义
英 /ˌwəʊ ɪz ˈmiː/    美 /ˌwoʊ ɪz ˈmi/

英文释义

感叹词 intj.
  1. Used to show that the speaker feels distress or misery; humorous use usually also signals self-awareness regarding excessive self-pity. humorous,sometimes
    — Blasted with extasie. Oh, woe is me, T'haue seene what I haue seene: see what I see.

词形变化

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词汇关系

反义词
yay

词源

Here, the oblique pronoun me denotes not an informal copulative complement (as in this is me), but an indirect object, wherefore it literally means woe is to me, an obsolete way of saying I feel woe; compare German mir ist traurig (“I feel sad”, literally “to-me [it] is sad”). Idiomatically, it means woe is upon me. See also German weh ist mir and its descendant, Yiddish וויי איז מיר (vey iz mir), which are identical in form and meaning to the English expression.
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