cry for 的定义
- Also, cry out for; have a crying need for. Be in urgent need of, as in This wall cries for a second coat of paint, or This car is crying out for a good washing, or There is a crying need for order in this house. The figurative use of cry for, literally meaning “implore” or “weep for,” dates from the late 1500s, as does the use of crying for “demanding attention.” The first variant, alluding to actually shouting out one's needs or desires, dates from the second half of the 1800s.
cry for 近义词
等同于 pray
更多cry for例句
- “He turned pale, trembled to a great degree, was much agitated, and began to cry,” she told the court.
- Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
- The girls send a cry for help…the situation of these girls is distressing.
- There was no mistaking this for the gaudiness and gilt of made-for-TV awards shows.
- Both the Ramos sons squeezed their eyes and lowered their heads, doing their best not to cry.
- Do not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall?
- At Felipe's cry, the women waiting in the hall hurried in, wailing aloud as their first glance showed them all was over.
- I could have sworn I heard a cry, and one of my men spoke in a tone that assured me my imagination had not been playing a trick.
- A sob rose in her throat, and broke from her lips transformed into a trembling, sharp, glad cry.
- Antirosa had decided it was better to let the children "have their cry out," and the boy had gone to school.