Plaintive
['pleɪntɪv] or ['plentɪv]
解釋/意思:
(n.) Repining; complaining; lamenting.
(n.) Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad.
編輯:沃伦
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Complaining, lamenting, moaning.[2]. Mournful, sorrowful, sad, piteous, woful, rueful, grievous, dirge-like.
整理:弗娜
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Mournful, sorrowful, sad, doleful, melancholy, wailing, touching, moaning
ANT:Joyous, exultant, glad, jubilant, cheerful, cheering, gladdening
編輯:基蒂
例句/造句/用法:
- Mr. Snagsby, having said this in a very plaintive manner, throws in a cough of general application to fill up all the blanks. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Little Georgette still piped her plaintive wail, appealing to me by her familiar termMinnie, Minnie, me very poorly! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- A strain of plaintive music, played on stringed instruments, and flutes, recalled my attention to the hidden shrine. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- A pitiful and plaintive look, with which she had begun to regard him when she was still extremely young, was perhaps a part of this discovery. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- She was not pretty and looked weak and poor, but she had a plaintive and a good face, though it was still a little wild. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- She turned back, fixing her plaintive eyes on Gerty. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Never however see the plaintive take a pick-axe or any other wepping far from it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- You seem unhappy, Mr. Jingle,' said the lady, in a plaintive voice. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Thinks it was the plaintive's air in which that report originatinin. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The plaintive wail which succeeded the passionate roar went to Meg's heart, and she ran up to say beseechingly. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- The first half of that space of her life was only just accomplished, when her pitiful and plaintive look saw her father a widower. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The boy had naturally a low, plaintive voice, which in his dour moods rose scarcely above a lady's whisper. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It was a great change from Captain Swosser to Professor Dingo, she resumed with a plaintive smile. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- As those words were whispered to me, the plaintive music ceased. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- As I laid my hand on the door opposite, I heard a few plaintive chords struck on the piano in the room within. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
編輯:基蒂