单词详解 | lament

lament
音标
美音:/ləˈment/,英音:/ləˈment/

听听基本释意:

外刊例句
“I hear the opposition’s constant laments about ‘the end of the state’, ‘the end of democracy’, members of the opposition, losing the elections is not the end of democracy – this is the essence of democracy.”
“我听到反对派不断哀叹‘国家的终结’、‘民主的终结’,反对派成员,失去选举并不是民主的终结——这是民主的本质。”
BBC

In them, both women lamented that Mr. Trump had caused irreparable harm to his own staff as the violence played out.
在她们的谈话中,两名女性都感叹说,随着暴力事件的发生,特朗普先生对其手下的工作人员造成了无法弥补的伤害。
New York Times

After the loss, Moroccan fan Yousra Marrou lamented the outcome — and the opponent — in the capital of Rabat, where he joined crowds who gathered to grieve together.
输球后,摩洛哥球迷 Yousra Marrou 在首都拉巴特与聚集在一起哀悼的人群一起哀悼比赛结果和对手。
Washington Post

基本释意
noun
a cry of sorrow and grief
n. 挽歌,悼文;表达哀伤(或痛惜)之情的言辞;抱怨

同义词
lamentation,plaint,wail,coronach,dirge,requiem,threnody,elegy,bemoan,bewail,deplore,keen

短释义
If you are really upset or sorry about something, you might lament it. A lament is full of regret and grief.
如果你真的对某件事感到难过或难过,你可能会哀叹它。一首哀歌充满了遗憾和悲痛。

长释义
If you lament something, then you feel sorry about it. You could lament a mistake you made, or you could lament a horrible thing that happened to a friend. Also, a lament is an expression of grief. So if you keep saying how sorry you are about something, someone could say, “Enough of your laments!” There’s also an old literary form called “a lament,” which expresses feelings of loss in a long dramatic poem.
如果你哀叹某事,那么你会为此感到难过。你可以为自己犯下的错误而哀叹,也可以为发生在朋友身上的可怕事情而哀叹。此外,哀歌是悲伤的表达。所以如果你一直说你对某件事有多抱歉,有人可能会说,“你的哀叹够了!”还有一种古老的文学形式叫做“挽歌”,它用一首长篇戏剧性的诗来表达失落之情。

文学例句
A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment.
一片干燥、贫瘠的田野,超越希望和哀叹,超越梦想和幻灭。
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

“It’s a shame that money has to enter into everything,” I lamented.
“钱必须进入一切,真是太可惜了,”我感叹道。
Schooled by Gordon Korman

“This suspense is a thousand times worse than the most horrible event; tell me what new scene of death has been acted, and whose murder I am now to lament?”
“这种悬念比最可怕的事件还要糟糕一千倍;告诉我上演了什么新的死亡场景,我现在要为谁的谋杀而哀叹?”
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

词源
lament (v.)mid-15c., back-formation from lamentation or else from Old French lamenter “to moan, bewail” (14c.) and directly from Latin lamentari “to wail, moan, weep, lament,” from lamentum “a wailing, moaning, weeping.” Related: Lamented; lamenting.Related entries & more

下面是词源的翻译(机器翻译比较难翻,参考着看)
lament (v.)mid-15c.,从 lamentation 或古法语 lamenter“to moan, bewail”(14c.)的反向形成,直接来自拉丁语 lamentari“to wail, moan, weep, lament,” from lamentum “哀号、呻吟、哭泣。”相关:感叹;感叹。相关条目及更多


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