n.(名词)

1. [U]忧郁，悲哀 feeling of sadness

adj.(形容词)

1. (令人)悲哀的；(令人)沮丧的 very sad or making you feel sadness

Noun:

1. a feeling of thoughtful sadness

2. a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed

3. a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy

Adjective:

1. characterized by or causing or expressing sadness;

   "growing more melancholy every hour"
   "her melancholic smile"
   "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"
   

2. grave or even gloomy in character;

   "solemn and mournful music"
   "a suit of somber black"
   "a somber mood"
   

1.使人忧郁的;令人忧伤的
You describe something that you see or hear asmelancholy when it gives you an intense feeling of sadness.

e.g. ...a painter of hauntingmelancholy canvases...
一位画作中饱含挥之不去的忧伤情绪的画家
e.g. The only sounds were the distant,melancholy cries of the sheep...
只听得见远处羊群的哀鸣。

2.(习惯性或气质上的)忧郁，忧伤
melancholy is an intense feeling of sadness which lasts for a long time and which strongly affects your behaviour and attitudes.

e.g. I was deeply aware of hismelancholy as he stood among the mourners...
当他站在致哀的人群中时，我深深地体会到了他的忧伤。
e.g. The general watched the process with an air ofmelancholy.
将军神情忧郁地望着队列经过。

3.忧郁的;悲伤的
If someone feels or looksmelancholy, they feel or look very sad.

e.g. It was in these hours of the late afternoon that Tom Mulligan felt mostmelancholy...
傍晚这几个小时里，汤姆·马利根最为抑郁。
e.g. He fixed me with those luminous, empty eyes and hismelancholy smile.
他笑容忧郁地凝视着我，闪亮的眼睛里空无一物。

A mood of melancholy descended on us.

一种悲伤的情绪袭上我们的心头。

melancholy thoughts'/memories

悲哀的想法 / 记忆

The melancholy song died away.

哀婉的歌声渐渐消失了。

...a painter of haunting melancholy canvases...

一位画作中饱含挥之不去的忧伤情绪的画家

The only sounds were the distant, melancholy cries of the sheep...

只听得见远处羊群的哀鸣。

I was deeply aware of his melancholy as he stood among the mourners...

当他站在致哀的人群中时，我深深地体会到了他的忧伤。

The general watched the process with an air of melancholy.

将军神情忧郁地望着队列经过。

It was in these hours of the late afternoon that Tom Mulligan felt most melancholy...

傍晚这几个小时里，汤姆·马利根最为抑郁。

He fixed me with those luminous, empty eyes and his melancholy smile.

他笑容忧郁地凝视着我，闪亮的眼睛里空无一物。

He has a strain of melancholy in him.

他有点忧郁.

It was a disheartening circumstance, but a melancholy fact.

这是一个令人懊丧的情况, 但是一个悲惨的事实.

He fell a prey to melancholy.

他为忧郁所折磨.

He felt melancholy after he failed the exam.

这次考试没通过,他感到很郁闷.

Feeling melancholy , Zhang recalls his life on a sampan while scattering Shi's ashes into the sea.

张保仔独自驾着小船出海,把一嫂骨灰撒入海中.回想从前种种,仿如隔世.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

伟大的人物也有穷亲戚,那是令人忧郁的事实.

I have a story to tell you of the deepest melancholy.

我有一件极为痛心的事告诉你.

All at once I fell into a state of profound melancholy.

我立即陷入无限的愁思之中.

The undergraduate nodded in a cynical, melancholy way.

那位大学生点点头,神情既玩世不恭, 又闷闷不乐.

We talked of the melancholy end of a gentleman who had destroyed himself.

我们谈起一位已自杀的先生的使人抑郁的结局.

His smile, at once enchanting and melancholy, is just his father's.

他那种既迷人又有些忧郁的微笑, 活脱儿象他父亲.

Results: The pooled odds ratio ( OR ) values ( 95 % CI ) were melancholy 3.

结果: 各因素合并比值比 ( OR ) 及 95%CI 分别为:性格忧郁3.

There was a strain of melancholy in his character.

他的个性有点郁.

Nothing could conjure away his melancholy.

什么也驱散不了他的忧愁.

For us common folk, blue may mirror the melancholy of mortals dwarfed by the infinite.

对于我们普通人来说, 蓝色可以反映在大千世界里显得极其渺小的凡夫俗子的忧郁.

His demeanour had a kind of melancholy which was perplexing.

他的行为有抑郁倾向,令人困惑.

A profound melancholy seized her.

一阵极度的凄伤袭上她的心头.

Some use it as a means to depict their disorientation and melancholy.

有些人把沉默作为不辨方位和忧郁意思的描述.

The sad news disposed him to melancholy.

令人沮丧的消息使他心情忧伤.

1. A mood of melancholy descended on us.
   一种悲伤的情绪袭上我们的心头。

用作表语S+be+～

1. He pined and became melancholy.
   他衰弱憔悴，心情忧郁。

• The dissease called choler or melancholy.

  出自：H. Lyte

• Cases of melancholy which are accompanied by great restlessness.

  出自：W. H. O. Sankey

• A certain music, never known before, Here soothed the pensive, melancholy mind.

  出自：J. Thomson

• There is no more melancholy creature..than a mountebank off duty.

  出自：W. Irving

• He felt acutely melancholy, not very far from tears.

  出自：R. Hughes

sad，unhappy，gloomy，blue，sorrowful，melancholy

这些形容词均含“忧伤的，悲哀的，伤感的”之意。

sad最常用词，泛指一切形式的悲伤，着重暂时的不幸或感觉的忧伤。

unhappy多指日常生活中遇到不如意的事而感到不愉快、不幸，侧重指心理状态。

gloomy指愁眉苦脸，令他人也感到扫兴。

blue非正式用词，语气较随便，指较强烈的忧郁或沮丧。

sorrowful多指因丧失亲人等原因所引起的悲哀，也指由于错误而产生的悔恨交加的心情。

melancholy指经常性的忧郁或悲哀，多用于文学描写中。