sob
US /sɑb/
・UK /sɒb/
B1 中級英檢中級多益
v.i.不及物動詞啜泣
The poor, lonely children sob quietly
n.名詞啜泣(聲)
I could hear the sob in the next room as she cried
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為什麼我們要花很長時間才能瞭解自己有多糟糕？ (Why It Can Take Us So Long to Understand How Unwell We Are)
- This priority can last for a very long time indeed. After all, a sense of external security isn't remotely assured for most of us until we've settled in a career, built up some capital, bought a home, found a spouse, maybe had some children, by which time we might be in our forties or fifties. Yet our excellence at survival doesn't take away from the basic fact of our situation. We have been born into a mess. We have the ingredients of madness inside us. We have been unmoored by cruelty. We are, quietly, in the recesses of our soul, close to insanity at points, the ineluctable result of too much suffering encountered too soon. But as the external world gets ever safer for us, the internal world has a chance to feel as troubled as it has always been. We may feel far stranger inside at forty than at twenty, even though the causes of our disturbances lie in events far closer to the latter date than the former. Eventually, the pent-up fear and sadness are liable to find a way through. We'll start to do something odd, write long letters to strangers, or crash the car, or sob in public, or develop a certainty that the government is following us. The legacy of the unkindness of which we have been the recipients begins to emerge. With any luck, we may soon enough wind up in a clinic or the consulting room of an experienced therapist and here have a chance to find out more about the sadness and loss that have been inside us since the start. We may finally feel safe enough to let out a very long scream and meet with the love and understanding that were our due from the start.
這種優先權可能會持續很長一段時間。畢竟，對於我們中的大多數人來說，在事業穩定下來、積累了一定的資本、買了房子、找到了配偶、也許有了孩子之前，外部安全感是無法保證的，到那時我們可能已經四五十歲了。然而，我們出色的生存能力並不能掩蓋我們處境的基本事實。我們生來就是一團糟。我們的內心充滿了瘋狂的成分。我們因殘酷而失去自我。我們的靈魂深處悄悄地接近瘋狂，這是過早遭遇太多痛苦的必然結果。然而，當外部世界對我們越來越安全時，我們的內心世界卻有機會像以往一樣感到不安。四十歲時，我們的內心可能會比二十歲時陌生得多，儘管造
- We will start to do something odd—write long letters to strangers, or crash the car, or sob in public, or develop a certainty that the government is following us.
這樣用英文罵人，可以不帶髒字卻超級道地！ (How not to swear!)
- Your mother had sex with a gun. Is that better? Or, "SOB". "He's a dirty SOB."
你媽跟槍發生關係了。這有比較好嗎？或是簡稱「雜種」。「他是個下流的雜種。」
- Son of a bitch. SOB.
婊子養的。雜種。
川普痛批「取消文化」卻慶祝柯爾伯被停播！ (Trump, who bemoaned cancel culture, celebrates Colbert's cancellation)
- He said, "Get that SOB off the field." And that's what happened.
那麼，你如何為這位總統本質上試圖這樣做的事實辯護呢？
- He said, "Get that SOB off the field." And that's what happened.
在唐納德-特朗普成為這個唐納德-特朗普之前，他曾呼籲解僱科林-卡佩尼克。
未寄出信件的祕密力量！ (The Secret Power of Unsent Letters)
- A general principle of mental health is that the less we are able to express, the more unwell we get. It's when we have to stifle our rage, sadness or fear that we start to develop secondary symptoms – sleeplessness, paranoia, bitterness, poor digestion – just as our spirits can lighten and our horizons expand, once we can find a way to lend outward form to our pains. However, the problem is often one of occasions. We may in theory be ready to say and feel all sorts of things, but our outward circumstances may be highly unconducive to free expression. Perhaps the person we'd really like to say something to is dead, or they may, just as problematically, be distracted, fragile or frightening. We then make the error of imagining that there can be no point in speaking and on this basis stifle our emotions to our increasing cost. But this is to miss out on an unexpected quirk of our psyches. What may matter most in many situations is not, as we might think, that the person we need to speak to is actually able to hear what we have to say, but rather that we have a proper, in-depth chance to say it anyway. There can be as much benefit in shouting our feelings to a deserted beach, a large pillow or an empty chair as there would in having a lengthy dialogue with an intimidating parent or an obtuse lover. The best technique in this tradition may be to write a letter that we never send, either because the person in question is no longer alive or because we just have no expectation that what we could write would remotely be understood. The discipline of writing a long letter has the effect of galvanising our hitherto confused and disparate emotions and forces our intelligence to lay out our story in a systematic and emotionally logical way. As we write, we turn what might have been an inchoate sob into something intelligible, plausible, compassion-inducing and moving. We go from I hate you so much or why why why to a full, leisurely recap of how we felt, why we suffered and what the legacy of our injury has been. We can be like a grown-up lawyer making a case in a courtroom of adults on behalf of a frightened or muddled child. We can take our absent reader into the details of a story that they refuse to see existed and may have done their best to silence. We are giving ourselves an opportunity to feel legitimate in our own eyes. We may realise that the real audience we needed all along was ourselves. We suffer unnecessarily when we think that the only form of catharsis is one that can unfold in the physical presence of a person who damaged us. Our freedom is fortunately far greater than this, because the real sceptic we need to win over and explain our full story to is chiefly and crucially always ourselves.
心理健康的一個普遍原則是，我們越不善於表達，我們就越不健康。當我們不得不壓抑自己的憤怒、悲傷或恐懼時，我們就會開始出現繼發性症狀--失眠、多疑、苦悶、消化不良--而一旦我們能夠找到一種方法，將我們的痛苦以外顯的形式表現出來，我們的精神就會變得輕鬆，我們的視野就會變得開闊。然而，問題往往出在場合上。理論上，我們可能已經準備好說出和感受各種事情，但我們的外在環境可能非常不利於自由表達。也許我們真正想說的人已經死了，或者他們也可能心不在焉、脆弱或令人恐懼。於是，我們就會錯誤地認為說話沒有任何意義，並據此扼殺我們
- As we write, we turn what might have been an inchoate sob into something intelligible, plausible, compassion-inducing,
書 08 - 鐘樓怪人 小說朗讀版｜維克多·雨果 (第一至六章) (Book 08 - The Hunchback of Notre Dame Audiobook by Victor Hugo (Chs 1-6))
- She was heard to sob amid the darkness.
建築層，現代巴黎覆蓋了古老的巴黎。
- She was heard to sob amid the darkness. "Anything you like," she replied feebly,
黑暗中傳來她啜泣的聲音。「隨您怎麼處置，」她虛弱地回答，
聖文森特翻唱經典！大衛鮑伊〈Young Americans〉致敬演出！ ("Young Americans" - St. Vincent Takes David Bowie UNDER THE COVERS)
- But anyway, that's not that sob story.
我確定她。
- But anyway, that's not that sob story, but I would say Erica Dochi's really sick.
不過總之，這不是我的悲慘故事，但我想說 Erica Dochi 真的很棒。
第七章：雙城記有聲書｜狄更斯經典名著 (第三冊，第八至十一章)！ (Part 7 - A Tale of Two Cities Audiobook by Charles Dickens (Book 03, Chs 08-11) !)
- very beautiful." It was a long, grieving sound, like a sigh, almost like a sob.
你是Conciergerie的獄卒嗎？" "我偶爾是。"
- "Ah!" It was a long, grieving sound, like a sigh--almost like a sob.
「啊！」那是一聲長長的、悲傷的聲音，像嘆息——幾乎像啜泣。