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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He laments that scientists have largely ignored the concept of love.
  他感到遗憾的是，科学家们大都忽略了爱情的含义。
• Besides, as a senior UN official laments, the Iraq fiasco has "poisoned this well".
  另外作为联合国官方的一大痛楚，伊拉克的惨败已经“严重毒化了这一概念”。
• Arthritis and declining vision may simply be a facet of getting older, she laments.
  她悲哀地说，关节炎和视力减退可能只是我们逐渐变老的一个方面而已。
• He laments the quality of potential engineers coming out of British schools.
  他对英国学校出来的未来工程师的质量感到失望。