1SAD/UNHAPPYgreat sadness because someone has died 〔因某人去世而感到的〕哀痛,悲痛,哀悼
The Armenian authorities declared May 29 a national day of mourning.
亚美尼亚当局宣布5月29日为全国哀悼日。
in mourning (=feeling great sadness) 服丧的
It was the custom to visit those in mourning and sit quietly with them.
按习俗要去看望服丧者,陪他们静坐。
2DCCMXblack clothes worn to show that you are very sad that someone has died 丧服
She was recently widowed and wearing mourning.
她丧夫不久,还穿着丧服。
Examples from the Corpus
mourning• Mourning for the death of your husband used to last up to a year.• Nevertheless, once the period of courtmourning was over, Così was revived with a reasonabledegree of success.• The much smaller amount of work on older women represents them as in mourning for the same psychologicalcharacteristics.• We're all supposed to be in mourning.• There has been so much mourning to do.• Friday was declared an international day of mourning for the victims.• If so, it would surely only be after a period of mourning.• The Kaddish is a prayer of mourning.• No use mourning on an emptystomach.• The widow wore mourning.
in mourning• The family is in mourning.• Some of the people were in mourning.
1sadness about sb's death對逝者的悼念ADJECTIVE | VERB + MOURNING | MOURNING + NOUN | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤deep深切哀悼➤national, official國喪;官方哀悼➤public公開弔唁VERB + MOURNING➤be in, go into哀悼;舉哀◇He was in deep mourning for his dead wife.他為亡妻深感悲痛。MOURNING + NOUN➤clothes喪服PHRASES➤a day of mourning, a period of mourning哀悼日;服喪期◇a day of mourning for the victims of the tragedy哀悼慘案受害者的一天➤a state of mourning居喪mourning
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2clothes衣服ADJECTIVE | VERB + MOURNING | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤full全身喪服VERB + MOURNING➤wear穿着喪服PREPOSITION➤in mourning身穿喪服◇She was still in full mourning six months after her son's death.兒子死後 6 個月她還是全身喪服。