lamenting

英 [ləˈmentɪŋ]

美 [ləˈmentɪŋ]

v.  对…感到悲痛; 痛惜; 对…表示失望
lament的现在分词

现在分词：lamenting　

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

• I have wept my eyes out lamenting for thee, thou light of my eyes.
  我哭了我的眼睛为你自怨自艾，清高针对眼前。
• Basically, what we see in this picture is a bird lamenting the fact that its home has been destroyed.
  我们主要能从这幅图上看到的是一只小鸟为自己的家被毁坏而悲伤。
• There is no point lamenting about what has happened in the past.
  事情都已经发生了，痛恨过去是没有意义的。
• Jeremy Hunt, culture secretary, announced the new spending while lamenting that the UK was falling behind France and Germany in attracting Chinese tourists.
  英国文化大臣杰里米亨特（jeremyhunt）在宣布这项新的支出时，对英国在吸引中国游客方面落后于法国和德国表示遗憾。
• Is your husband such a precious bargain that you should be grovelling there, lamenting and groaning for him?
  难道你丈夫是这么一个宝贝，以致你要匍匐在那儿，为他痛哭哀号？
• The poem opens by lamenting over the death of a young man.
  这首诗以哀悼一个青年的死开篇。
• Some are already lamenting how quickly spring has turned to winter.
  有些人已在哀叹春去冬来是如此之快。
• She's always lamenting the lack of sports facilities in town.
  她总是抱怨伦敦缺少体育设施。
• Some cultural pessimists have gone further still, lamenting the strange tendency of adults to become as obsessed with the Harry Potter books as their children.
  一些文化悲观论者说得更过，他们对成年人变得像自己的孩子一样迷恋《哈利波特》的奇怪潮流发出了哀叹。
• We should not waste our time and tears lamenting it.
  与其浪费时间和眼泪去哀悼，不如集中精力重整河山。