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单词 gripe
释义
gripe
noun[C]
informal
uk
/ɡraɪp/us
/ɡraɪp/
astrongcomplaint:
抱怨，怨言，牢骚
Hermaingripe is that she's not beingtrainedproperly.她主要是抱怨自己没有受到很好的培训。
Synonyms
beef(COMPLAINT)informal
complaint(REPORT OF A PROBLEM)
grievance
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Complaining
  • be/go on atsomeoneidiom
  • bellyaching
  • bewail
  • brouhaha
  • bugger, sod, etc. this for a lark!idiom
  • complain
  • complaining
  • create/kick up/raise a stinkidiom
  • gnashing of teethidiom
  • grouch
  • lodge
  • mutter
  • nark
  • raise a rumpusidiom
  • rumpus
  • squawk
  • start on atsomeone
  • vituperation
  • whinging
  • whiny
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gripe
verb[I]
informal
uk
/ɡraɪp/us/ɡraɪp/
tocomplaincontinuouslyabout something in a way that isannoying:
There's nopointgripingaboutthepriceof things.
Synonyms
complain
moan(COMPLAIN)informaldisapproving
More examples
  • Employees also have griped that some 130 of the city's top-paidofficialsgetfreedowntownparking.
  • Instead of griping about howintolerablethissituationis,peopleshouldfollowyourexampleand justleave.
  • Environmentalists,meanwhile, gripe thatjunkmailrequiressome 4 milliontonsofpaper,nearlyhalfof whichlandsin thetrashunopened.
  • Valdez had comefacetofacewith aphenomenonthatindustrycriticshave been griping about foryears.
  • "Florida ain'trankedin the Top 25, and they're on TV everySaturday," he gripes.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Complaining
  • be/go on atsomeoneidiom
  • bellyaching
  • bewail
  • brouhaha
  • bugger, sod, etc. this for a lark!idiom
  • complain
  • complaining
  • create/kick up/raise a stinkidiom
  • gnashing of teethidiom
  • grouch
  • lodge
  • mutter
  • nark
  • raise a rumpusidiom
  • rumpus
  • squawk
  • start on atsomeone
  • vituperation
  • whinging
  • whiny
See more results »
(Definition ofgripefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
gripe
noun[C]
informal
uk
/ɡraɪp/us
/ɡraɪp/
astrongcomplaint
抱怨，怨言，牢骚
Hermaingripe is that she's not beingtrainedproperly.她主要是抱怨自己没有受到很好的培训。

gripe| American Dictionary

gripe
noun[C]
infml
us
/ɡrɑɪp/
astrongcomplaint:
Mybiggestgripe aboutlivinghere is thehotweather.

gripe

verb[I]us
/ɡrɑɪp/
People gripe about doingyardwork.
(Definition ofgripefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofgripe

gripe
My onlygripeis that there are few 'general' papers and nothing on numerical modelling and thus the volume is heavily weighted towards case studies.
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My onlygripewas to question the wisdom of placing a technical chapter at the beginning of the book.
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I have other gripes, but on balance the book is a very worthwhile piece of work.
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Despite such localized gripes, this is an excellent, and an excellently c conceived and edited, essay collection.
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This is a minorgripe, in truth, and one that will only find sympathy among vertebrate palaeobiologists with my particular range of interests.
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Presented with a volume so extensive in its coverage, it would be an unusual reviewer who could not come up with a few gripes.
From theCambridge English Corpus
My onlygripewith the book is the continuing inclusion of the autistic spectrum disorders under the general term of psychoses by some contributors.
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These are minor gripes, however.
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But these are small gripes.
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Had e-mail not been so widely available, the criticism probably would have not become known outside the company; but the gripes would still have been there.
From theCambridge English Corpus
They are not griping about self-interest but expressing deep concern for a profession in which they take pride.
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Mygripeat times is that it does not represent us internationally as eloquently and efficiently as it should.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
It is not the rôle of a responsible body to turn itself into a sort ofgripefactory.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
There are always gripes about the relative pay.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
We are not here to make the usual easy gibes about fat cats, or togripeabout the continual price increases.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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