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

• 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。
• This is no wonder that people sincerely laments?
  这怎不让人由衷感叹？
• We're left with the multiple options that she laments.
  我们被留下了，很多种可能。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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”。
• Laments about shoddy administration and corruption are commonplace.
  对于劣政和腐败的失望情绪十分常见。
• We heard her laments at midnight.
  我们在半夜里听到她恸哭。
• 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。
• 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。