| 单词 | tragic |
| 释义 | tragic (once / 127 pages) adj Tragic means sad on a grand scale. Rain on your parade? Sad. Weeks of rain leading to the destruction of a small town and the lives of those in it? Tragic. Though the word tragic has come to be used for common sorrows, it's best reserved for the kind of sad, unavoidable situations that Shakespeare would have written about. In a staged tragedy, the main character comes to a sad end due to his or her one tragic flaw –– this lead is called a tragic hero. WORD FAMILYtragic: tragedy, tragically, tragicly+/tragedy: tragedies, tragical/tragical: tragicalest USAGE EXAMPLESMark Caldwell, one of the hotel’s managers, read a prepared statement calling the incident “a tragic accident.” Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) A manager at the Dupont Circle Hotel called the incident “a tragic accident” in a prepared statement. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) The tragic lesson of Syria is that when the eagle flies away, the vultures move in. Wall Street Journal(Dec 31, 2016) 1adj very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction a tragic face a tragic plight a tragic accident Syn tragical sad experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness 2adj of or relating to or characteristic of tragedy tragic hero |
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