Lament
[lə'ment] or [lə'mɛnt]
解释:
(noun.) a cry of sorrow and grief; 'their pitiful laments could be heard throughout the ward'.
(verb.) express grief verbally; 'we lamented the death of the child'.
编辑:蒂姆--From WordNet
解释:
(v. i.) To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn.
(v. t.) To mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail.
(v.) Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping.
(v.) An elegy or mournful ballad, or the like.
整理:朱莉安娜
同义词及近义词：
v. n. Mourn, grieve, weep, wail, moan, complain.
v. a. Bewail, deplore, bemoan, mourn.
n. [1]. Wailing, moaning, moan, lamentation, plaint, complaint.[2]. Dirge, elegy, epicedium, mournful song, funeral song.
巴顿整理
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Deplore, mourn, bewail, regret, grieve_for, bemoan, wail_for
ANT:Welcome, hall
亚伯整理
解释:
v.i. to utter grief in outcries: to wail: to mourn.—v.t. to mourn for: to deplore.—n. sorrow expressed in cries: an elegy or mournful ballad.—adj. Lam′entable deserving or expressing sorrow: sad: pitiful despicable.—adv. Lam′entably.—n. Lamentā′tion act of lamenting: audible expression of grief: wailing: (pl. B.) a book of Jeremiah.—p.adj. Lament′ed bewailed: mourned.—adv. Lament′ingly with lamentation.
埃莉诺校对
娱乐性解释：
To dream that you bitterly lament the loss of friends, or property, signifies great struggles and much distress, from which will spring causes for joy and personal gain. To lament the loss of relatives, denotes sickness or disappointments, which will bring you into closer harmony with companions, and will result in brighter prospects for the future.
校对:莫蒂默
例句:
- You throw a torch into a pile of buildings, and when they are consumed you sit among the ruins, and lament the fall. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- The songs she sang, without lament, In her prison-house of pain, Forever are they sweetly blent With the falling summer rain. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- And therefore he will be least likely to lament, and will bear with the greatest equanimity any misfortune of this sort which may befall him. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- For her I could not lament, so much I envied her enjoyment of the sad immunities of the grave. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- That was the burden of her lament; and her last adjuration to her daughter was to escape from dinginess if she could. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- But I do not see here a sufficient quantity of the wisdom that is necessary to produce such a conduct, and I lament the want of it. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- When once it had been read, there was no doing any thing, but lament and exclaim. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- Yes, Watson, I went there, and I found very quickly that the late lamented Oldacre was a pretty considerable blackguard. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- She was the mother of fifteen children, when she died lamented and respected by every one who knew her. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Much to be lamented, no doubt, particularly by myself, who am a child of nature if I could but show it; but so it is. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Likewise she overdid her respect, and all that, for the lamented memory of the deceased Mr. Tulkinghorn. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Then Ruth came, and they wept together, and lamented, then Naomi came to comfort them. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- If my lamented friend had taken my advice, the business of the inquest would have been with the body of Mr. Hartright. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- From early youth he had considered his pedigree with complacency, and bitterly lamented his want of wealth. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- From such vague laments I turned to the contemplation of the minutiae of my situation. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Yes, she laments it; yet owns it may have been best. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- We passed about a week together, during which time I was continually talking of poor Meyler and lamenting his precarious state of health. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Some were lamenting, and in restless motion; but, these were few. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- Laurie smiled, but he liked the spirit with which she took up a new purpose when a long-cherished one died, and spent no time lamenting. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Epidemic diseases, I believed, were often heralded by a gasping, sobbing, tormented, long-lamenting east wind. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- You are a mere infant, but you'll go next, Jo, and we'll be left lamenting, said Laurie, shaking his head over the degeneracy of the times. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Burns, lamenting that his share uptears the bed of the wee modest crimson-tipped flower and sorrowing that he has turned the Mousie from its bit o' leaves and stibble by the cruel coulter. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- And instead of having any shame or self-control, he will be always whining and lamenting on slight occasions. 柏拉图. 理想国.
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