0 to make someone sad -- 使悲伤，使难过，使伤心
[ + to infinitive ] It saddens me to think that we'll never see her again. 想到我们再也见不到她了，我非常伤心。
We are deeply saddened by this devastating tragedy. 这起令人震惊的悲剧事件使我们沉浸在深深的悲痛之中。
They are appropriately saddened by her tremendous health problems and her unfortunate lack of familial support.
I'm really rather saddened that this is the way the debate is going.
I am deeply saddened that this truly good man is no longer with us.
In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.
You say your brother was saddened that his monks could not be perfectly instructed.
Our emotional responsiveness to the world - the fact that we are angered by wickedness, saddened by suffering - seems an essential part of our human nature.
What saddens me about this case is that if clinical staff had appreciated this initial problem of trust, care might have been more timely and the outcome different.
He was continually saddened by such discoveries.
