causing or characterized by extreme distress or sorrow 悲惨的;可悲的 the shooting was a tragic accident. 这起枪杀事件是场悲剧。 ■suffering extreme distress or sorrow 悲惨的,悲痛的 the tragic parents reached the end of their tether. 双亲悲不自胜。 ■of or relating to tragedy in a literary work (与)悲剧作品(有关)的
派生 tragical adjective tragically adverb 语源
mid 16th cent.: from French tragique, via Latin from Greek tragikos, from tragos 'goat', but associated with tragō-idia (see tragedy)