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
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柯林斯词典

  1. VERB 为…悲痛；哀叹；痛惜
    If you lament something, 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。
  2. N-COUNT 悲痛之情；哀叹；痛惜
    Someone's lament is 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。
  3. N-COUNT 悼词；挽歌
    A lament is 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。
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双语例句

  1. 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。
  2. 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。
  3. 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。”
  4. You realize that hip-hop is urban folk art, and as much an indication of the conditions in impoverished areas as bluesman Robert Johnson's laments in the1930s.
    你会意识到，嘻哈乐是一种都市民间艺术，它像上个世纪30年代的布鲁斯歌手罗伯特•约翰逊演唱的哀歌一样，对贫困地区的环境和条件具有强烈的暗示作用。
  5. Gary Moore, the co-founder, laments that retail sales have been slow.
    联合创始人GaryMoore悲叹最近零售销售额不佳。
  6. He laments that scientists have largely ignored the concept of love.
    他感到遗憾的是，科学家们大都忽略了爱情的含义。
  7. Laments about shoddy administration and corruption are commonplace.
    对于劣政和腐败的失望情绪十分常见。
  8. Besides, as a senior UN official laments, the Iraq fiasco has "poisoned this well".
    另外作为联合国官方的一大痛楚，伊拉克的惨败已经“严重毒化了这一概念”。
  9. For these laments aren't for their own sake; it's not self-pity or a wallowing in one's tears.
    因为这不是为了他们自己而作的哀歌；这不是自我可怜，也不是要在泪海中沉溺不起。
  10. In the 'Sonnet-to Science', Poe laments the disappearance of magic.
    在《十四行诗&致科学》里，坡哀叹魔力之一去不返。
  11. Arthritis and declining vision may simply be a facet of getting older, she laments.
    她悲哀地说，关节炎和视力减退可能只是我们逐渐变老的一个方面而已。
  12. This Singaporean statesman laments that many political and other troubles have hampered Philippine economic progress.
    许多政治和其他问题防碍了菲律宾的经济发展，李光耀感到非常惋惜。
  13. '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。
  14. He laments at the state of SOA initiatives in the enterprise.
    他哀叹企业SOA项目的状况。
  15. He laments the quality of potential engineers coming out of British schools.
    他对英国学校出来的未来工程师的质量感到失望。
  16. In this book he laments the slight interest shown in his writings.
    在该书中他慨叹人们对他的著作兴趣微弱。
  17. As one veteran observer laments, a crucial mistake was made at the outset: not allowing the government and its foreign supporters a monopoly on the means of violence.
    正如一位经验丰富的观察家所哀叹的，关键错误在一开始就铸成了：没有允许政府和其外国支持者完全主导对暴力的整治。
  18. Instead he laments that contemporary politicians have very little sense of history.
    他还哀叹现代的政治家们太缺少历史感。
  19. Talking to Hendry, I was reminded of one of the most famous laments to be heard when the credit crisis broke in the summer.
    与亨德里交谈时，我想起了去年夏天信贷危机爆发时最有名的悲叹。
  20. This is no wonder that people sincerely laments?
    这怎不让人由衷感叹？
  21. But that is not yet true in Russia, he laments.
    他慨叹俄罗斯还未达到这种水平。
  22. 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。
  23. 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。
  24. 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。
  25. We heard her laments at midnight.
    我们在半夜里听到她恸哭。
  26. Vain laments, slim fantasy, crushed into small thorn headlong into the atrium.
    徒劳的感叹，渺茫的幻想，碾碎成了小刺扎进了心房。
  27. We could hear her laments through the closed door.
    我们可以听见她关着门在恸哭。
  28. Meanwhile, Mufasa's wicked brother, Scar, laments the unfairness of his life.
    这时，木法沙的兄弟，邪恶的刀疤，正为命运的不公平而痛苦不已。
  29. We're left with the multiple options that she laments.
    我们被留下了，很多种可能。
  30. Such are the desperate laments of the sufferer.
    我宝贵的一生就这样浪费了么？
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