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词汇 saddened
释义 saddened
past simple and past participle ofsadden
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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Examples of saddened


saddened

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


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.
You say your brother was saddened that his monks could not be perfectly instructed.
He was continually saddened by such discoveries.
It served as a merry way of binding a company together, as a virtuous tutor and above all as a banisher of melancholy for saddened souls.
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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Sometime ago, when he was there, he was saddened by the slouching appearance of a number of the boys.
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I am saddened only that my country has not played a more positive rôle and has so bitterly divided people by its policies.
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I am saddened by the air of jocularity that is prevailing in what should be an austere debate.
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I was saddened to hear yesterday that the appeal has not even been acknowledged, which would cost only the price of a postage stamp.
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I was, however, saddened that he mentioned only one famous batsman from the north but a galaxy of talent from the south.
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Many of us who have an interest in railway history are saddened that there is no broad gauge rolling stock.
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