- 断腸
- だんちょう
heartbreak* * *だんちょう【断腸】¶~の思いがしたMy heart was torn by grief. 悲しみで胸が張り裂けそうだった.* * *だんちょう【断腸】heartbreak; sickness to the stomach.●断腸の思い heartbreaking [heart-rending, gut-wrenching, stomach-sickening] grief
・断腸の思いがする feel one's heart rent [torn to pieces]; feel as if one's heart were breaking; be brokenhearted; be sick to the stomach
・それを聞いて断腸の思いがした. I felt my heart would break [bleed] to hear that. | It was heart-rending news to me. | The news came as a blow to my stomach.
・断腸の思いをさせる break sb's heart; grieve sb to the very heart; hit sb in the stomach
・議員辞職の責任をかぶせられる秘書はさぞ断腸の思いだろう. The assistant must be sick to the stomach at being made to carry the can for the Diet member's resignation.
Japanese-English dictionary. 2013.