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

• 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。
• Instead he laments that contemporary politicians have very little sense of history.
  他还哀叹现代的政治家们太缺少历史感。
• As cannon shells are falling around him, he laments," Maybe I went a little too far. "
  正当炮弹在他周围降落，他悔恨，“可能我离开得有一些远了。”
• While he laments the deaths of American soldiers, he barely mentions the suffering of Iraqi citizens.
  虽然他对死去的美军士兵表达了哀悼，却对伊拉克民众的苦难鲜有提及。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• We heard her laments at midnight.
  我们在半夜里听到她恸哭。
• For these laments aren't for their own sake; it's not self-pity or a wallowing in one's tears.
  因为这不是为了他们自己而作的哀歌；这不是自我可怜，也不是要在泪海中沉溺不起。
• In the 'Sonnet-to Science', Poe laments the disappearance of magic.
  在《十四行诗&致科学》里，坡哀叹魔力之一去不返。