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laments

英 [ləˈments]

美 [ləˈments]

v.  对…感到悲痛; 痛惜; 对…表示失望
n.  挽歌; 哀诗; 悼词
lament的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

  • VERB 为…悲痛;哀叹;痛惜
    If youlamentsomething, you express your sadness, regret, or disappointment about it.
    1. Ken began to lament the death of his only son...
      肯开始对独子的死悲痛不已。
    2. He laments that people in Villa El Salvador are suspicious of the police...
      他哀叹埃尔萨尔瓦多镇的居民居然不信任警方。
    3. 'Prices are down 40 per cent since Christmas,' he lamented.
      “圣诞节以来物价降了4成,”他悲叹道。
  • N-COUNT 悲痛之情;哀叹;痛惜
    Someone'slamentis an expression of their sadness, regret, or disappointment about something.
    1. She spoke of the professional woman's lament that a woman's judgment is questioned more than a man's.
      她谈到职业女性的悲哀:与男性相比,她们的判断力更易遭人质疑。
  • N-COUNT 悼词;挽歌
    Alamentis a poem, song, or piece of music which expresses sorrow that someone has died.
    1. A singer on the country music station was singing a lament for the late, great Buddy Holly.
      乡村音乐电台中,一位歌手正演唱歌曲哀悼已故的伟大音乐人巴迪·霍利。

双语例句

  • Laments about shoddy administration and corruption are commonplace.
    对于劣政和腐败的失望情绪十分常见。
  • He laments that scientists have largely ignored the concept of love.
    他感到遗憾的是,科学家们大都忽略了爱情的含义。
  • And, at one point in time, he laments the end of the old Latin world and the B.C.world, when people could have these child slaves.
    在某一时刻,他为拉丁时代和公元前时代的结束而哀悼,那时人们可以拥有小孩做奴隶。
  • Besides, as a senior UN official laments, the Iraq fiasco has "poisoned this well".
    另外作为联合国官方的一大痛楚,伊拉克的惨败已经“严重毒化了这一概念”。
  • Gary Moore, the co-founder, laments that retail sales have been slow.
    联合创始人GaryMoore悲叹最近零售销售额不佳。
  • Vain laments, slim fantasy, crushed into small thorn headlong into the atrium.
    徒劳的感叹,渺茫的幻想,碾碎成了小刺扎进了心房。
  • He laments the quality of potential engineers coming out of British schools.
    他对英国学校出来的未来工程师的质量感到失望。
  • For these laments aren't for their own sake; it's not self-pity or a wallowing in one's tears.
    因为这不是为了他们自己而作的哀歌;这不是自我可怜,也不是要在泪海中沉溺不起。
  • As one veteran observer laments, a crucial mistake was made at the outset: not allowing the government and its foreign supporters a monopoly on the means of violence.
    正如一位经验丰富的观察家所哀叹的,关键错误在一开始就铸成了:没有允许政府和其外国支持者完全主导对暴力的整治。
  • While he laments the deaths of American soldiers, he barely mentions the suffering of Iraqi citizens.
    虽然他对死去的美军士兵表达了哀悼,却对伊拉克民众的苦难鲜有提及。