Complaint
[kəm'pleɪnt] or [kəm'plent]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) (civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim for relief is based.
(noun.) an expression of grievance or resentment.
(noun.) (formerly) a loud cry (or repeated cries) of pain or rage or sorrow.
亚瑟校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment; lamentation; murmuring; accusation; fault-finding.
(n.) Cause or subject of complaint or murmuring.
(n.) An ailment or disease of the body.
(n.) A formal allegation or charge against a party made or presented to the appropriate court or officer, as for a wrong done or a crime committed (in the latter case, generally under oath); an information; accusation; the initial bill in proceedings in equity.
约瑟芬校對
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Murmur, lamention, plaint, lament, wail.[2]. Malady, disease, ailment, ail, illness, indisposition, disorder, distemper, sickness.[3]. Accusation, charge, information against.
整理:怀亚特
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Murmur, discontent, repining, grievance, annoyance, remonstrance,expostulation, lamentation, sickness, disease
ANT:Congratulation, rejoicing, approbation, complacency, boon, benefit, applause,jubilee, health, sanity
希拉里校對
例句/造句/用法:
- I have no complaint to make. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- What if my complaint be about to take a turn, and I am yet destined to enjoy health? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I have told your ladyship that I should be placed in a very disagreeable situation if any complaint was made, and all is in strict confidence. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Did they sit up for the folks at the Pineries, when Ralph Plantagenet, and Gwendoline, and Guinever Mango had the same juvenile complaint? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- My Lady, with a disdainful gesture of the hand that holds the screen, assures him of his being worth no complaint from her. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Nobody has wrote a syllable to me concerning his making use of the hammer, or made the least complaint of him or you. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Mr Merdle's complaint. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Mr. Tulkinghorn had listened gravely to this complaint and inquires when the stationer has finished, And that's all, is it, Snagsby? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- On the passage out I heard no complaint of their conduct. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Notwithstanding the great increase occasioned by such early marriages, there is a continual complaint of the scarcity of hands in North America. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- But with the increase of serious and just ground of complaint, a new kind of patience had sprung up in her mother's mind. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- A complaint of me,' said Mr Merdle. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I coom home wi'out a hope, and mad wi' thinking that when I said a word o' complaint I was reckoned a unreasonable Hand. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- The seizure of the station with a fit of trembling, gradually deepening to a complaint of the heart, announced the train. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- My employer said, 'Mr. Jennings, I have no complaint to make against you; but you must set yourself right, or leave me. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The Colonel had his office full of people, mostly from the neighboring States of Missouri and Kentucky, making complaints or asking favors. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Dear Ma'am, replied Elinor, smiling at the difference of the complaints for which it was recommended, how good you are! 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- The newspapers sent in frantic complaints, an investigation was made, and our little scheme was discovered. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- On every hand was heard the complaints of women, the wailing of children, and the cries of men. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Though those complaints produced no act of parliament, they had probably intimidated the company so far, as to oblige them to reform their conduct. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Here's my mother who never has anything of her own, except her complaints. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- The event acquitted her of all the fancifulness, and all the selfishness of imaginary complaints. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- The gentleman who made the complaints informed me first of his own high standing as a lawyer, a citizen and a Christian. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- It took hours of my time every day to listen to complaints and requests. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- You may possibly have some idea, Miss Trotwood, of abetting him in his running away, and in his complaints to you. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- About their complaints and their doctors do ladies ever tire of talking to each other? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I took no steps to answer these complaints, but continued to do my duty, as I understood it, to the best of my ability. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Complaints of that sort are sometimes made, about Ratcliffe and Wapping and up that way. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Many were the complaints below, and great the chagrin of the head cook at her failures. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- People who suffer as I do from nervous complaints can have no great inclination for talking. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
校對:罗伯特