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repining

/ri-pahyn/US // rɪˈpaɪn //UK // (rɪˈpaɪn) //

悔恨,悔过书,悔改,悔悟

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v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    re·pined, re·pin·ing.

    • : to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain.

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Examples

  • But, fortunately, they had scant time for repining, and there is nothing like active occupation to banish useless brooding.

  • He has lost that spirit of repining and sarcasm, and lives as if he had an object.'

  • He endured without repining the bent back, the sightless eyes, and the creaking joints incident to over-maturity.

  • And they learned to accept the inequalities of life without repining insolence.

  • I prepared myself for dismissal, and hoped that, when the hour arrived, I should submit without repining.