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单词 lament
释义
lament
verb[IorT]
uk
/ləˈment/us
/ləˈment/
toexpresssadnessandfeelingsorryabout something:
对…感到悲痛，对…表示失望，痛惜
Thepoemopensby lamenting(over)thedeathof ayoungman.这首诗的开篇表达了对一位青年之死的惋惜之情。
Mygrandmother, asusual, lamented thedeclineinmoralstandardsin today'ssociety.和往常一样，我奶奶对当今社会世风日下深感痛惜。
Thelatelamented(=deadandrememberedwithlove)Frank Giotto used tolivehere.已故的受人爱戴的弗兰克‧焦托曾在此居住。
Synonyms
bemoanformal
bewailliterary
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keenverbliterary
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Sadness and regret
  • aw
  • be/weigh onyourconscienceidiom
  • bitter
  • black dog
  • breastbeating
  • cry
  • distress
  • feel badidiom
  • gloominess
  • glumness
  • groan
  • guilt
  • melancholia
  • regretful
  • regretfully
  • remorse
  • remorseful
  • remorsefully
  • repentant
  • wretchedness
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Remembering people who have died
lament
noun[C]
formal
uk
/ləˈment/us
/ləˈment/
asong,poem, or otherpieceof writing thatexpressessadnessabout someone'sdeath:
挽歌；悼诗；悼文
Thewholeplaycan beinterpretedas a lamentforlostyouth.整部剧可以看作是一首青春的挽歌。
Synonyms
dirge
elegy
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Remembering people who have died
  • bereaved
  • bereavement
  • epitaph
  • grief
  • grieve
  • grieving
  • in memory ofsomeoneidiom
  • lamented
  • memento mori
  • memorial
  • memorial card
  • Memorial Day
  • memory
  • obituary
  • remembrance
  • Remembrance Day
  • rest
  • rest in peaceidiom
  • rip
  • shrine
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(Definition oflamentfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

lament| American Dictionary

lament
verb[T]
us
/ləˈment/
toexpresssadnessandregretabout something:
He lamented hisstudents’lackofinterestin theclassics.
lament
noun[C]
us
/ləˈment/
anexpressionofsadnessover something, or acomplaint:
Baker’s lament was that hisschedulekepthim away from hisfamilytoo often.
(Definition oflamentfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflament

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Pastoral laments the gap between representation and its imagined subject, and in a sense its subject is this gap.
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As the courtiers' lyric laments are realized in action, as their desires are reflected in another, they are simultaneously negated.
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The underlying message of these various laments is that the ruler has little autonomy and even less power.
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The poet lamented the administration's lack of sartorial wisdom.
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She lamented that she had not had much leisure time when she was younger.
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Thus, though one laments the omissions in this regard, they are perhaps understandable, relative to the purposes the authors had in mind.
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They lamented lack of time for research and fieldwork.
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Scenes like these consolidated a conventional association between laments and the feminine voice.
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They lamented the demise of baroque bel canto and of the castrato's voice.
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The first priority of the government was not the well-being of its subjects, he laments.
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Another manager in a bottling company lamented that poor wages caused workers to resign at a rate of 40 per cent annually.
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One textbook laments that writers do not follow advice against the passive because they do not understand the concept of voice.
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If chiefs told many stories, colonial officials alternated between portraying custom as fixed and timeless and lamenting its vagaries and elusiveness.
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Many critics of the argument have lamented the sort of hyper-rationalism of the project.
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The shrine, he laments, has been hollowed out, transformed into ' ' the movie set visitors [expect] to see ' ' (191).
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