| 单词 | to make moan |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make (one's) moan a. Lamentation, complaint; an instance of this. Frequently in to make (one's) moan: to lament, grieve, complain. Also in extended use. Now chiefly Scottish.In recent use coloured by association with sense 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > [noun] carea1000 sorrowingOE meaninga1200 moan?c1225 mourning?c1225 plaint?c1225 ruthc1225 weimerc1230 mean?c1250 sorrow?c1250 dolec1290 plainingc1300 woec1300 dolourc1320 mourna1350 waymentingc1350 penancec1380 complaintc1384 lamentationc1384 complainingc1385 moaninga1400 waiminga1400 waymenta1400 waymentationc1400 dillc1420 merourec1429 plainc1475 regratec1480 complainc1485 regretc1500 lamenting1513 doleance1524 deploration1533 deplorement1593 condolement1602 regreeting1606 imploration1607 pother1638 dolinga1668 moanification1827 dolence1861 the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > [noun] > instance or act of lamenting moan?c1225 mean?c1250 bimena1325 lamentation1382 queryc1400 pinec1440 tragedy1536 lamentc1592 complaint?1606 conclamation1627 quiritation1634 throb1635 pathetic1667 dismals1774 jeremiad1780 complain1820 tangi1836 Jobism1855 wail1867 rune1922 vigil1956 the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > lament or express grief [verb (reflexive)] > bewail one's lot bemoanc1220 to make (one's) moan?c1225 moan1642 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 306 Ladlich þing is..hwen me makeð itune man [a1250 Nero mone] of ancres achte. a1275 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 46 (MED) Þe sorie soule atte dom makit hire mon..‘Awei, wrechede bodi!’ c1300 St. Katherine (Harl.) 140 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S.-Eng. Legendary (1956) 538 (MED) Hi þane deþ for Godes loue afonge wiþoute mone. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 149v The kite haþ a voys of pleynynge and of mone. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 16865 (MED) Noiþer þai gaf man, ne tok emsample gode þar-bi. ?a1425 (?c1350) Northern Passion (Rawl.) 3372 (MED) Sone þai saw þe aungell bryght..restand on þe graue stane Omang þam, als þai made þair mane. c1480 (a1400) St. Nicholas 1137 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 513 Þane in his hart he mad mayne & sichit sare. a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) i. ii. sig. A.iiij Of loue I make my mone. 1572 in D. Digges Compl. Ambassador (1655) 343 There is very great moan made for the loss of Monsieur D'Candales. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. iii. 29 Marke the moane she makes. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 550 Hov'ring about the Coasts they make their Moan; And cuff the Cliffs with Pinions not their own. 1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 19 A Carpenter..made such pitiful Moan to be taken in. 1745 Scots Mag. June 274 To bare our hearts, and tell you a' our mane. 1841 C. Gray Lays 89 Wha daur complain, or mak a mane. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Miller's Daughter (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 104 And oft I heard the tender dove In firry woodlands making moan. 1853 T. T. Lynch Lect. Self-improvem. vi. 135 The moan of the idle about circumstance. 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiii. 159 In Henry's days the people made their moan that they were ground down. 1891 J. J. H. Burgess Rasmie's Büddie 22 Whin I wis ill an makkin maen, Shü gae, ta richt me, ‘sinnie’. 1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers ii. 35 ‘Needn't make a moan of it,’ put in Mrs. Morel. She hated her husband because..he whined and played for sympathy. 1933 M. Symon Deveron Days 5 When the kingie dee'd ae Lammas mirk, His fowk made muckel mane. 1975 A. Deyell My Shetland 63 ‘We baith heard hit.’ ‘Heard what?’ said I. ‘A woman makin mane.’ 1992 Harper's Mag. Sept. 11/1 Every now and then one of the Republican voices of conscience..makes public moan in the newspapers about the decay of manners and the loss of virtue. < as lemmas |
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