woe

苦難、災難

いくつも重なることの多い、深刻な問題や困難。

やさしい英語で： A serious problem or difficulty, often one of several.

• Their money woes are growing.
• The company's financial woes began last winter.
• More bad weather added to the farmers' woes.

類義語： trouble, problem, misfortune

よく使う表現： financial woe, economic woe, fresh woe

悲嘆、悲哀

非常に深い悲しみや苦しみ、またはその原因となるもの。

やさしい英語で： Very great sadness or suffering, or something that causes these feelings.

• Her face was full of woe.
• He told us a long tale of woe.
• The poem describes the mother's woe after losing her child.

類義語： sorrow, misery, grief

反対語： joy, happiness

よく使う表現： full of woe, tale of woe, woe is me

呪い

誰かに害や苦しみが降りかかるよう願う言葉。

やさしい英語で： Words wishing harm or suffering on someone.

• The prophet pronounced a woe.
• She uttered a woe against the cruel king.
• The ancient text contains several woes directed at dishonest rulers.

使い方： woe to someone (Woe to those who betray their friends.)

類義語： curse, malediction

反対語： blessing

よく使う表現： pronounce a woe, utter a woe, woe upon someone

ダチ、親友

特に同じ仲間の集まりにいる親しい友人を指す俗語。

やさしい英語で： A close friend, especially someone in your own group.

• He's my woe.
• I spent the evening with my woes.
• My woe has stayed beside me through everything.

類義語： friend, buddy, homie

反対語： enemy

よく使う表現： my woe, with a woe, woe for life