"to make sorrowful," 1620s, from sad + -en (1). Earlier verb was simply sade, from Old English sadian, which also could be the immediate source of the modern verb. Intransitive meaning "to become sad" is from 1718. Related: Saddened; saddening.
雙語例句
1. You can sigh away half your youth if you choose to allow failed relationship to sadden you.
如果你陷于失敗的傷感中,你就會使前半生在嘆息中度過.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
2. Don't sadden your friends and gladden your enemies.
勿使親者痛仇者快。
來自辭典例句
3. Do not sadden your friends and gladden your enemies.
勿使親者痛仇者快.
來自辭典例句
4. That dark Egyptian seems to me to sadden the very sun.
在我看來那個陰森的埃及人似乎會使太陽都變得黯淡無光.
來自辭典例句
5. It is something that can inspire as well as sadden people.