plaintive
音标：
美音：/ˈpleɪntɪv/，英音：/ˈpleɪntɪv/
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
Set to plaintive string music, the video depicted parents crying as they kiss their children, wounded Ukrainians in hospital beds, children in tears, and bloodstained sheets over corpses.
这段视频以哀伤的弦乐为背景，描绘了亲吻孩子时哭泣的父母、医院病床上受伤的乌克兰人、流泪的孩子以及尸体上沾满血迹的床单。
—Washington Post
Who hasn’t asked themselves the same aching question framed by the Bee Gees in their plaintive 1971 masterpiece, “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?”
比吉斯夫妇在 1971 年悲痛的杰作中提出的同样令人痛心的问题，谁没有问过自己，“你怎么能修补破碎的心？”
—Washington Post
“This is a great nation. We are good people,” Mr. Biden said, speaking in simple goals, sounding almost plaintive at times in his 21-minute address.
“这是一个伟大的国家。我们是好人，”拜登先生说，他的目标很简单，在他 21 分钟的演讲中有时听起来几乎是哀伤。
—New York Times
基本释意：
adjective
expressing sorrow
adj. 哀伤的；悲哀的
同义词：
mournful,
短释义：
Plaintive is an adjective for describing someone or something with a pleading, sorrowful, desperate tone. If you have ever heard the plaintive howl of a wolf, then you know what we are getting at here.
Plaintive 是形容词，用恳求、悲伤、绝望的语气来形容某人或某事。如果你曾经听过狼的哀嚎，那么你就知道我们在这里要做什么了。
长释义：
A plaint, as in complaint, is an expression of sorrow or grief. This word has also been bent a little at the ends to become plaintiff or complainant — the sufferer — in a lawsuit. So, whether you are hearing a plaintive tone in a courtroom, at a funeral, or in the wild (as in an animal’s plaintive howl), you can be assured that someone or something desires something desperately.
抱怨，就像抱怨一样，是悲伤或悲伤的表达。这个词在结尾也有点弯曲，成为诉讼中的原告或投诉人——受害者。因此，无论您是在法庭、葬礼还是在野外（如动物悲哀的嚎叫）听到哀伤的语调，您都可以确信某人或某事迫切地想要某物。
文学例句：
Leo couldn’t understand the words, but the song was plaintive and bittersweet, as if she were describing a home she could never return to.
里奥听不懂歌词，但那首歌却是悲哀而苦乐参半，仿佛在描述一个永远回不去的家。
—The House of Hades by Rick Riordan
The ephemeral bloom of a sego lily peeks from the toe of a ninety-foot stone arch, and canyon wrens call back and forth in plaintive tones from a thatch of scrub oak.
从九十英尺高的石拱的脚趾上探出一朵短暂的百合花，峡谷鹪鹩在灌木橡树的茅草丛中以哀伤的音调来回呼唤。
—Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Taped to the box was a plaintive note: “Please do not steal this. I am on financial aid. Jenny Drexler.”
盒子上贴着一张哀伤的纸条：“请不要偷这个。我正在接受经济援助。珍妮·德雷克斯勒。”
—The Secret History by Donna Tartt
词源：
plaintive (adj.)late 14c., "lamenting, complaining, giving utterance to sorrow or grief," from Old French plaintif "complaining; wretched, miserable," from plainte (see plaint). Sense of "expressive of sorrow or melancholy, mournful, sad" is recorded from 1570s. Earlier was pleintful "grievous, lamentable" (early 14c.). Related: Plaintively; plaintiveness.Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
plaintive (adj.)late 14c.，“哀叹，抱怨，表达悲伤或悲伤”，来自古法语原告“抱怨；悲惨，悲惨”，来自plainte（见原告）。从 1570 年代开始记录“表达悲伤或忧郁、悲哀、悲伤”的感觉。早些时候是丰富的“悲伤，可悲”（14c早期）。相关：悲哀地；哀伤。相关条目及更多
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