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lament

/luh-ment/US // ləˈmɛnt //UK // (ləˈmɛnt) //

哀叹,悲叹,感叹,悲哀

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to feel or express sorrow or regret for: to lament his absence.
    • : to mourn for or over.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to feel, show, or express grief, sorrow, or regret.
    • : to mourn deeply.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an expression of grief or sorrow.
    • : a formal expression of sorrow or mourning, especially in verse or song; an elegy or dirge.

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Examples

  • It’s a true elegy, a lament for the dead, a yearning for the lost.

  • After nearly a year of working from home, the difficulty in finding ways to connect with peers and lament workplace issues is getting to some creatives.

  • When things inevitably begin to get heavy, there are no emotional outbursts, no histrionic laments, no ugly crying.

  • All we have is a lament for another child our city has lost.

  • Over the years, his encyclopedic knowledge of the decline—or, more charitably, the evolution—of American industry has crystallized into a kind of lament about the shifting character of the US economy.

  • While many today lament that iPhones and iPads have become almost extra limbs, for Hockney they were a breakthrough for his art.

  • But by and large, McCain and Kaine didn't so much disagree as lament different topics.

  • So go the lyrics of the iconic 1970 Joni Mitchell lament, “Big Yellow Taxi.”

  • And yet the voices we hear over the footage of school closures lament the potential loss of … football.

  • But even if you blame the parties equally, or blame the Democrats more, you should lament this: It harms the United States.

  • And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall sit desolate on the ground.

  • Ethel hesitated a little, and presently answered, "I don't think it can be right to lament for our own sakes so much, is it?"

  • Hence also the word was particularly used to signify any complaint or lament, or a chant at the burial-service.

  • Profitable trade was their one aim and the extravagances of their servants and apprentices their increasing lament.

  • His glowing eyes and the half-choked voice in which he concluded gave an authentic stamp to his lament and pronouncement.