Joylessness
“Joylessness” 指缺乏快乐、热情或生气勃勃的状态。它描绘的是一种灰暗、沉闷甚至令人沮丧的氛围或处境。
- “The joylessness of the gray office building was depressing.” (那座灰色办公楼的枯燥乏味令人感到压抑。)
- “He suffered from a deep sense of joylessness after losing his job.” (失业后,他陷入了深深的郁闷之中。)
- “The movie captures the joylessness of life in a war-torn city.” (这部电影捕捉到了战争蹂躏下的城市生活中毫无喜悦的状态。)
- Joy: 欢乐
- Less: 无,没有
- Ness: 名词后缀
- 词根:
joy(欢乐) - 后缀:
-less(形容词后缀,意为“没有”) - 后缀:
-ness(名词后缀,意为“性质”或“状态”)
在现代心理学中,“joylessness”(也称为 anhedonia,即快感缺失)被认为是抑郁症的一个重要症状。从文化角度看,它常用于文学和艺术评论中,用来描述那些刻意剥离情感、强调生活荒诞或沉重的作品。
- 相关词汇: joyless (形容词, 毫无喜悦的), joy (名词)
拆分记忆:Joy (快乐) + less (无) + ness (状态)。没有快乐的状态。
“The winter had been long, and the city was trapped in a blanket of permanent fog. A sense of joylessness had settled over the inhabitants; nobody sang in the streets or smiled at strangers. But then, the first spring flower pushed through the concrete, and its tiny splash of color began to dissolve the heavy joylessness of the town.” (冬天很漫长,城市被永久的浓雾笼罩着。居民们陷入了一种毫无喜悦的状态;没有人再在街上唱歌,也没有人会对陌生人微笑。但是后来,第一朵春天的花破土而出,它那微小的一抹色彩开始消解小镇沉重的压抑感。)