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

• This is no wonder that people sincerely laments?
  这怎不让人由衷感叹？
• Half a century after Suez, part of the British psyche still laments this retreat from the world.
  在苏伊士危机过去半个世纪之后，英国人部分程度上仍有因放弃争夺世界霸权而懊恼的心理。
• He laments at the state of SOA initiatives in the enterprise.
  他哀叹企业SOA项目的状况。
• 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。
• We could hear her laments through the closed door.
  我们可以听见她关着门在恸哭。
• As one veteran observer laments, a crucial mistake was made at the outset: not allowing the government and its foreign supporters a monopoly on the means of violence.
  正如一位经验丰富的观察家所哀叹的，关键错误在一开始就铸成了：没有允许政府和其外国支持者完全主导对暴力的整治。
• Vain laments, slim fantasy, crushed into small thorn headlong into the atrium.
  徒劳的感叹，渺茫的幻想，碾碎成了小刺扎进了心房。
• This Singaporean statesman laments that many political and other troubles have hampered Philippine economic progress.
  许多政治和其他问题防碍了菲律宾的经济发展，李光耀感到非常惋惜。
• Meanwhile, Mufasa's wicked brother, Scar, laments the unfairness of his life.
  这时，木法沙的兄弟，邪恶的刀疤，正为命运的不公平而痛苦不已。
• Talking to Hendry, I was reminded of one of the most famous laments to be heard when the credit crisis broke in the summer.
  与亨德里交谈时，我想起了去年夏天信贷危机爆发时最有名的悲叹。