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词汇 sadden
释义 sadden
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈsæd.ən/ us /ˈsæd.ən/
C2
to make someone sad: 使悲伤,使难过,使伤心
[ + to infinitive ]It saddens me to think that we'll never see her again.想到我们再也见不到她了,我非常伤心。
We are deeply saddened by this devastating tragedy.这起令人震惊的悲剧事件使我们沉浸在深深的悲痛之中。
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sadden | American Dictionary


sadden
verb[ T ]
us/ˈsæd·ən/
to make someone sad or unhappy:
It saddened me to learn of your father’s death.

Examples of sadden


sadden
They are appropriately saddened by her tremendous health problems and her unfortunate lack of familial support.
I'm really rather saddened that this is the way the debate is going.
I am deeply saddened that this truly good man is no longer with us.
In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.
You say your brother was saddened that his monks could not be perfectly instructed.
Our emotional responsiveness to the world - the fact that we are angered by wickedness, saddened by suffering - seems an essential part of our human nature.
What saddens me about this case is that if clinical staff had appreciated this initial problem of trust, care might have been more timely and the outcome different.
He was continually saddened by such discoveries.
Scientific fraud of course occurs, but when it does, colleagues are genuinely saddened, and mystified about how the fraudsters thought they could get away with it.
I was saddened that its director-general, who began with such promise, resigned after nine months.
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I am only saddened by the fact that it should come only after a still greater toll of human misery has been exacted by society.
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What saddens me is the devastation that has taken place over the years.
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It saddens me greatly to see our great values being eroded by the growing suspicion of uninformed cynicism.
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Sometime ago, when he was there, he was saddened by the slouching appearance of a number of the boys.
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That saddens me, but nothing saddens me more than contemplating an animal being chased by a pack of hounds accompanied by people on horseback.
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