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 know I risk sounding like a bureaucrat in the French Ministry of Culture lamenting the dilution of the French tongue by English words like computer and Internet.
  我知道这种腔调听着像个法国文化部官僚在哀叹，法语被computer、Internet之类的英文词给侵蚀了。
• 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。
• She also recalled him saying his mother was a concubine and lamenting that his brothers were from different mothers.
  她还回忆到，拉登说过他的母亲是一个小妾，并为他的兄弟出自不同的母亲而叹息。
• 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。
• Of course, lamenting the lack of anything worth watching has long been a national pastime.
  当然，长期以来，抱怨没什么值得看的节目已经成了一种全国性的消遣。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• This is the most beautiful and most lamenting fairy tales I have ever read.
  这是我喜欢的童话里最悲伤最美丽的一篇。