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wailing

/weyl/US // weɪl //UK // (weɪl) //

哭哭啼啼,哀号,哭声,啼哭

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v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to utter a prolonged, inarticulate, mournful cry, usually high-pitched or clear-sounding, as in grief or suffering: to wail with pain.
    • : to make mournful sounds, as music or the wind.
    • : to lament or mourn bitterly.
    • : Jazz. to perform exceptionally well.
    • : Slang. to express emotion musically or verbally in an exciting, satisfying way.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to express deep sorrow for; mourn; lament; bewail: to wail the dead; to wail one's fate.
    • : to express in wailing; cry or say in lamentation: to wail one's grief.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of wailing.
    • : a wailing cry, as of grief, pain, or despair.
    • : any similar mournful sound: the wail of an old tune.

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Examples

  • The album’s continuous flow of shimmering synthesizer swirls and electronic wails that envelop and seemingly expand in all directions reveal Strom’s innate world-building skills.

  • Along with her wails, she’d repeat the same phrases, over and over — all part of a daily ritual that spanned some four hours, until a collection of voices told her they were satisfied.

  • For all of the bellyaching, tooth gnashing, and public wailing, Democrats have no one to blame but themselves.

  • When the Iraqis resume shouting and wailing at you, Hassan translates every exclamation until you tell him to stop.

  • “I heard my baby wailing and asked one of the officers to let me hold him,” she writes.

  • In his 2000 visit to Israel, the Polish pope placed a note at the Wailing Wall seeking forgiveness for Christian anti-Semitism.

  • When Japan scored a point there were moans and a long wailing cry of E-yay.

  • At Felipe's cry, the women waiting in the hall hurried in, wailing aloud as their first glance showed them all was over.

  • The sentinel was singing a sequedilla above; and its notes came to them with the wailing blast.

  • He came close to having convulsions when a squad car passed on the next street west, its siren wailing.

  • And an answering cry sounded across the lagoon—thin, wailing, piteous.

  • The hero hears sounds of wailing, and finds the maiden, the daughter of the King of the Isles, exposed upon the seashore.