詞彙精選：weep的用法和辨析

一、詳細釋義：

n.

【俚】眼淚；哭泣

（水珠的）滲出，滴下

v.

哭泣，流淚 [I,T]

例句：

The little girl is weeping.

這個小姑娘在哭泣。

例句：

The little girl wept herself to sleep.

小女孩哭着哭着入睡了。

滴落，滴下；滲出液體 [I,T]

例句：

The dagger wept with blood.

匕首滴血。

例句：

He wept a few crocodile tears over his wife's death and then go married again at once.

他假惺惺地爲妻子的死掉了幾滴眼淚，然後，很快又結婚了。

悲嘆，哀悼 [I,T]

例句：

I weep for the loss of your husband.

我對你失去丈夫而深表同情。

例句：

He wept his dead brother.

他哀悼他死去的哥哥。

二、詞義辨析：

cry,weep,sob

這3個動詞均有“哭”之意。cry普通用詞。指因痛苦、悲哀或傷感等出聲地哭。weep書面用詞，指小哭或無聲地哭，側重流淚。sob指抽泣、嗚咽。 cunning,sly這兩個形容詞均含“狡猾的”之意。cunning指憑詭計達到狡詐的目的。sly指竭力掩飾其意圖，靠矇混或表裏不一等隱蔽手法達到個人目的。

三、參考例句：

None shall weep a tear for me!

沒有人會爲我掉眼淚。

It is better to laugh than weep.

笑比哭好。

I weep for the loss of your husband.

我爲你失去丈夫而哭泣。

It's not necessary to weep for who are conscienceless.

何必爲他這個沒良心的人哭泣。

We could not but weep at the sad news.

聽到這悲痛的消息，我們不禁愴然淚下。

Have once to weep over in your diary.

有沒有曾在你日記裏哭泣。

There was no one to watch or weep for him.

沒有人在看守他或爲他哭泣。

Fear not the future; weep not for the past.

（諺）不要爲未來擔憂，不要爲過去哭泣。

I would rather have my people laugh at my economies than weep for my extravagance.

我寧可讓我的人民笑我的節省，也不願讓他們爲我的奢侈而哭泣。

She didn't weep at the parting or make any time over it.

分手時，她既沒有哭，也沒有大吵大鬧。