lamentation

英 [ˌlæmənˈteɪʃn]

美 [ˌlæmənˈteɪʃn]

n.  悲伤; 悲痛; 悲哀; 十分失望

复数：lamentations　

CET6

BNC.22161 / COCA.23933

牛津词典

noun

• 悲伤；悲痛；悲哀；十分失望
  an expression of great sadness or disappointment

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 悲恸；哀悼
  Alamentationis an expression of great sorrow.
  1. It was a time for mourning and lamentation.
     这是一个沉痛悼念的时刻。
  2. ...special prayers and lamentations.
     特别祷告和哀悼

英英释义

noun

• the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief
  Synonym:mourning
• a cry of sorrow and grief
  1. their pitiful laments could be heard throughout the ward
  Synonym:lamentplaintwail

双语例句

• Yet hear the word of the lord, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
  妇女们哪，你们当听耶和华的话，领受他口中的言语；又当教导你们的儿女举哀，各人教导邻舍唱哀歌。
• Face the past with the least lamentation, face present with the least waste and with the most dream to face future.
  有最少的悔恨面对过去，用最少的浪费面对现在，用最多的梦面对未来。
• A wall in jerusalem; sacred to Jews as a place of prayer and lamentation; its stones are believed to have formed part of the temple of solomon.
  位于耶路撒冷的一座墙；对于犹太人来说那是一个哀悼和祈祷的圣地；它的石头被人们认为是从所罗门庙里取来的。
• Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
  耶路撒冷阿，要剪发抛弃，在净光的高处举哀。因为耶和华丢掉离弃了惹他忿怒的世代。
• It was a time for mourning and lamentation.
  这是一个沉痛悼念的时刻。
• There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the LORD.
  在摩押的各房顶上和街市上处处有人哀哭。因我打碎摩押，好像打碎无人喜悦的器皿。
• What have I to do with lamentation?
  我有什么可悲叹的呢？
• The little that she said was all in lamentation of this inevitable delay.
  她所说的寥寥数语，全是哀叹这迫不得已的耽延。
• And they will call the farmer to mourning, And for wailing to those skilled in lamentation.
  又必叫农夫来哭号，叫善唱哀歌的来哀哭。
• Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.
  适度的悲伤是死者的权利，过度的哀恸是生者的敌人。