| 词汇 | sadder but wiser |
| 释义 | Idiom sadder but wiser Theme: EXPERIENCE unhappy but educated [about someone or something—after an unpleasant event]. (Fixed order.)After the accident, I was sadder but wiser, and would never make the same mistake again.We left the meeting sadder but wiser, knowing that we could not ever come to an agreement with Becky's aunt. Idiom sadder but wiser if someone is sadder but wiser after a bad experience, they have suffered but they have also learned something from it.He bought a second-hand car and ended up sadder but wiser after a series of breakdowns and expensive repairs. sadder but wiserKnowledgeable or experienced after having gone through something unpleasant or unfortunate. We came through the economic disaster sadder but wiser, hopefully better prepared for such disasters in the future. I left the dinner sadder but wiser, understanding just how entrenched her family's bigotry still is. sadder but wiserCliché unhappy but knowledgeable [about someone or something--after an unpleasant event]. After the accident, I was sadder but wiser, and would never make the same mistake again. We left the meeting sadder but wiser, knowing that we could not ever come to an agreement with Becky's aunt. sadder but wiserUnhappy but having learned from one's mistakes, as in Sadder but wiser, she's never going near poison ivy again. The pairing of these two adjectives was first recorded in Samuel Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798). |
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