grieve: implies actual mental suffering, whether it is shown outwardly or not and connotes the concentration of one's mind on one's loss, trouble, or cause of distress: still ~s for his dead child.


mourn: stresses the outward expression of grief, sincere OR conventional, and usually suggests a specific cause such as the death of someone loved or respected: a nation ~s the loss of its hero.


sorrow: interchangeable with either grief or mourn when sincere mental distress is implied, stresses the sense of regret or loss and of deep sadness and suggests an inner distress rather outward expression of grief: ~ed with great dignity.


grieve悲痛: 表示思想集中于自己的损失痛苦上，表示实际上的精神痛苦，但不一定表现在外，mourn哀悼: 表示对悲痛的外在表达，常同时说出原因，如敬爱的人离世，可能真诚也可能循规蹈矩，sorrow悲痛: 可与grieve和mourn互换，但强调内心痛苦而不是外在表达，表示真切地感受到损失遗憾悲哀。


记忆方法: 1）首字母GMS排序成MSG消息<==让人哀恸的消息                      MSG是message的缩写，常用


         2）哀恸的意思感到悲伤或表达悲伤mean to feel or express sorrow or grief.        哀恸和哀痛的区别是: 哀恸表示极为哀痛, 八福中第一福是贫穷的人，第二福是哀恸的人: "blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted哀恸的人有福了，因为他们必得安慰"