| 釋義 |
bereave /bi'rfcv; ba'riv/ vt (pt, pp bereft /bi'reft; ba'reft/ or bereaved; usu bereft in (1) and bereaved in (2)) (過去式及過去分詞為 bereft 或 bereaved, 通常第 1 義用 bereft, 第 2 義用 bereaved) [VP14] ~ of, 1 rob or dispossess (of sth. immaterial): 奪去; 剝奪; 使喪失(指無形物)： bereft of hope, without hope; 失去希望的; bereft of reason, mad. 失去理智 (宦狂)的。 Indignation bereft him of speech, took away his power to speak. 他氣憤得說不出話來。 2 (of death) leave sad by taking away (a relation, etc): (指死亡)使痛失(親屬等)： the accident that ~d him of his wife and child; 使他痛失妻兒的禍?zhǔn)? the ~d husband, the man whose wife had died. 喪妻之人。 ~ment n [U] being ~d; loss by death: 喪失親人; 喪親之痛： We all sympathize with you in your ~ mem;> 我們皆同情你的喪親之痛; [C] instance of this: 親人喪亡之實例： → wing to a recent ~ merit she did not attend the concert. 因為她最近有親人喪亡，所以她沒有參加音樂會。 |