woebegone

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈwəʊbɪɡɒn/    美 /ˈwoʊbɪɡɔn/|/ˈwoʊbɪɡɑn/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. In a deplorable state.
    — The 44-year-old Prokhorov, the second-richest man in Russia, is expected to assume control of the woebegone Nets within the next few weeks.
  2. Filled with or deeply affected by woe.
    — Pen and Miss Bolton were hard by listening to the same concert, and the latter remarked, and Pen laughed at Mr. Foker’s woebegone face. Fanny asked what it was that made that odd-looking little man so dismal? “I think he is crossed in love!” Pen said.

词形变化

more woebegone comparative most woebegone superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
Lake Wobegon woebegonely woebegoneness

词源

From Old English wābegān (“beset by woe”), from wā (“woe”) + begān (“to beset, to surround”). Equivalent to woe + begone (past participle of bego).
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