Name: 英語家教Nick P動詞短語(154) Pine Away(松樹) (English Tutor Nick P Verb Phrase (154) Pine Away)
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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is verb phrase 154. The  verb phrase today is to pine

away. Okay. Let's look at the note here. If someone  pines away,  he or she falls into

a period of serious melancholy.  You know,  melancholy is great sadness or

depression due to longing for. You know,  they desire very much. They're longing

for or grief ... grief you know,  also feeling sad of for like especially a loss or a

death over someone. Basically,  it means someone feels extremely unhappy because

he or she could not be with someone they have romantic feelings for or at least

had romantic feelings for. All right. It can be ... it it can be to the extent that one

stops eating or you know,  having enjoyable times in their life or

enjoyable experiences and could lead to death. So it has that feeling that you're

kind of neglecting your health. You're so down or you're so depressed or you're so

you know,  in such a state of melancholy that you're kind of you're kind of

ignoring your normal things that you should take care of your health and your

health may get worse. So it does kind of have that feeling.  That's why they say pine

away. Pine away almost a little bit you know,  if it goes far enough it's almost a

little bit like wasting away. Okay. Let's continue here. All right. Let's look at we

got three examples here. According to one Greek mythology story,  Echo pined away

for Narcissus due to the rejection of her love. Yeah. If you're curious about

that I did do a word origins awhile back you know how we got the word echo

actually comes from this mythology story and a narcissist of course comes from

Narcissus. So both of them I've done the same in the same video because it's

really a couple of different mythology stories that I connected. But in this

mythology story she did literally waste away. She was so sad

and he'd caused her to die and and then her ghost kind of becomes the echo but

anyway that's it's it's an interesting one if you never heard that story. Number

two you have to stop pining away for your loss you must be strong and carry

on. This one sounds a little bit like a death but it could be also maybe you

lost someone you love. So it could be that. Or number three here. You broke

up six months ago. You cannot just continue to sit here and pine away in

depression. You need to move on with your life. Well this is probably just a

breakup,  but maybe somebody who's having difficulty getting closure or moving on

and they are  just depressed all the time.  and you know maybe a friend of their sees

that it could be really affecting their health at some point. Okay. Anyway this is

what we mean might find a way.  I hope you got it. I hope it was clear. Thank you for your