单词 | sad-happy |
释义 | > as lemmassad-happy b. Prefixed to other adjectives to express a combination of both qualities, as sad-happy, sad-serene, sad-sweet, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > [adjective] > characterized by sorrow > and sweetness sad-sweet1594 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. L3 Which when her sad beholding husband saw. View more context for this quotation 1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. iv. 85 Their sad-sweet glance so tye his faculties. 1795 W. Butler Bagatelles 20 Sad-smiling patience sat upon his brow. 1810 G. Crabbe Borough xii. 165 Sad happy Race! soon rais'd and soon deprest, Your Days all past in Jeopardy and Jest. 1909 E. Pound Exultations 12 Ye know somewhat the strain, the sad-sweet wonder-pain of such singing. 1928 E. Blunden Undertones of War 4 And there, sad-smiling,..were two or three of the convalescent squad. 1933 W. de la Mare Fleeting & Other Poems 17 How sad-serene the abandoned house. 1953 S. Kauffmann Philanderer xiv. 233 A lamp-lighted restaurant table, the distant sad-sweet music, all these flowed together in a comfortable alcoholic haze. 1990 B. Gill N.Y. Life 337 Remembering the past is a sad-happy act that is also a duty. < as lemmas |
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