I used to be a damsel in distress.

我是常常处于忧伤中的女。

The wisdom of the melancholy attitude as opposed to the bitter, angry one, lies in the understanding that the sorrow isn't just about you, that you have not been singled out, that you're suffering belongs to humanity in general.

“忧伤”的智慧跟“愤世嫉俗”的态度是对立的，它是充分，怀有悲伤的不只你一人，你也不是特例，相反地，这些挣扎是人性的共通处。

We may smile, a little sadly, at what this tells us about human nature.

看故事里向我们揭示的人性，我们或许会露出略含忧伤的微笑。

Our book Sorrows of Love helps us handle the inevitabel sorrows of love.

《爱的忧伤》这本书能帮助所有人应对爱给我们带来的不可避之的忧伤。

Wash the sorrow from off my skin and show me how to be whole again.

洗净我身上的无尽忧伤告诉我如何找回完整的自我。

But today she is listening to my sadness because I don't have a house.

可今天她在倾听我的忧伤，因为我没有一所房子。

For never was a story of more woe than this of Sadie and her Rollo, parting may be such sweet sorrow, but reunions are a ball.

从来没有一故事比赛迪和罗的故事更令人悲伤，分离也许是种甜蜜的忧伤，但重聚会令人开心。

The friends looked out at us with the tragic eyes and short upper lips of south-eastern Europe, and I was glad that the sight of Gatsby's splendid car was included in their somber holiday.

这些亲友从车子里向我们张望，从他们忧伤的眼睛和短短的上唇可以看出他们是尔南欧那一带的人，我很高兴在他们凄惨的出丧车队中还能看盖茨比豪华的汽车。我们的车子从桥上过布莱克威尔岛的时候。

But have no tune to charm away, sad dreams that through the eyelids creep.

可是没有哪支曲子能治愈心中的忧伤，眼帘上漫过的是令人悲伤的幽梦。

In this story a boy makes a sad little princess laugh without even trying!

在这则故事中，一毫不费劲，就让一忧伤的小公主笑了出来。

Do you know the saying parting is such sweet sorrow?

你听说过分离是甜蜜的忧伤吗？

They were plastered with mud some with blood too - and their ears were down and their whiskers drooped and their tails dragged in the grass, and their leader piped on his slender pipe a melancholy tune.

他们身上全是泥浆，有的身上还有血迹，耷拉着耳朵，胡子低垂着，尾巴也拖在草地上。它们的领队用短笛吹奏着一支忧伤的曲子。

And when we steamed slowly out of the lagoon, making our way gingerly through the opening in the reef, and then steered for the open sea, a certain melancholy fell upon me.

轮船缓缓驶出咸水湖，从珊瑚礁的一通道小心谨慎地开广阔的海面上，这时，一阵忧伤突然袭上我的心头。

They leaned over the fence rail to shake hands with Scarlett when she called and they laughed at her rickety wagon, their black eyes bitter, for they were laughing at themselves as well as her.

思嘉去拜访时他们倚在篱笆上跟她握手，并且取笑她那辆摇摇晃晃的破车，不过他们的黑眼睛是忧伤的，因为他们取笑她时也等于在取笑他们自己。

Meg admired the tragedy, so Jo piled up the agony to suit her, while Amy objected to the fun, and, with the best intentions in life, Jo quenched the spritly scenes which relieved the somber character of the story.

梅格欣赏这悲剧情节，乔就大肆渲染悲痛来满足她。艾米不爱看嬉笑打闹的段落，于是乔出于善良的意愿，扼杀了让书中忧伤气氛得以缓的欢乐场景。

She went indoors in that peculiar state of misery which is not exactly grief, and which especially attends the dawnings of reason in the latter days of an ill-judged, transient love.

她怀着这样一种独特的苦恼心情进了屋，这种心情不完全是悲伤，而是在一场轻率的、短暂的恋爱结束后自己突然醒悟所产生的忧伤。

Anger suddenly boiled up in him. Balked for the second time, the passion of his grief had found another outlet, was transformed into a passion of agonized rage.

怒火突然在他心里沸腾。他第二次受挫折，他忧伤的情绪找了另一出路，转化成了激动的悲愤。

I'm submitting my latest play to a young playwrights festival, but I want to hear it out loud first to be sure I've hit all my emotional marks.

我要把我最新的剧作投去参加青年剧作家文化节，但我想听人先读一遍，确认我触动了每忧伤的灵魂。

Sadly, the moral ambition of the novel has largely disappeared in the modern world, yet it's really the best thing that any novel can do.

忧伤的是，小说隐含的这些道德意图 在现代社会里几乎消失殆尽。然而，这却是小说所能达成的最真切美好的事情。

Henry Brandling, a sorrowful, rich Englishman, travels to Germany to commission a “mechanical marvel” so wondrous it will raise his consumptive son from his sickbed.

富裕却忧伤的英国子亨利·布兰德林（Henry Brandling）来德国，希望能找人制造出一美妙的“机械奇迹”，好让他身患肺痨的儿子能从中汲取战胜病魔的希望。