laments

英 [ləˈments]

美 [ləˈments]

v.  对…感到悲痛; 痛惜; 对…表示失望
n.  挽歌; 哀诗; 悼词
lament的第三人称单数和复数

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 don't know why I was born or what I am,'he laments at one point, and you can relate, since the movie doesn't know what to do with him.
  他在片中哀叹：“我不知道我为何而生，我不知道我是谁。”你对他的话会深有同感，因为影片根本不知道该拿这个人物怎么办。
• These became a tradition in Israel and are written in the Laments.
  而且在以色列中成了定例。这歌载在哀歌书上。
• 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。
• We heard her laments at midnight.
  我们在半夜里听到她恸哭。
• Half a century after Suez, part of the British psyche still laments this retreat from the world.
  在苏伊士危机过去半个世纪之后，英国人部分程度上仍有因放弃争夺世界霸权而懊恼的心理。
• As cannon shells are falling around him, he laments," Maybe I went a little too far. "
  正当炮弹在他周围降落，他悔恨，“可能我离开得有一些远了。”
• While he laments the deaths of American soldiers, he barely mentions the suffering of Iraqi citizens.
  虽然他对死去的美军士兵表达了哀悼，却对伊拉克民众的苦难鲜有提及。
• But that is not yet true in Russia, he laments.
  他慨叹俄罗斯还未达到这种水平。
• Laments about shoddy administration and corruption are commonplace.
  对于劣政和腐败的失望情绪十分常见。
• And, at one point in time, he laments the end of the old Latin world and the B.C.world, when people could have these child slaves.
  在某一时刻，他为拉丁时代和公元前时代的结束而哀悼，那时人们可以拥有小孩做奴隶。