英语词汇“lament”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

lament

/ləˈmɛnt

noun

1A passionate expression of grief or sorrow: his mother’s night-long laments for his father [mass noun]: a song full of lament and sorrow...

Dusty stood it on its head and made it a passionate lament of loneliness and love.
An assessment of great music should allow for a wider variety of moods and expressions - lament, meander, laughter, rage, gallows humor, resignation, and much more.
Cleopatra's response, though, suggests that she too intends suicide, and she confirms this in the passionate lament that follows his death.

Synonyms

wail, wailing, lamentation, moan, moaning, groan, weeping, crying, sob, sobbing, keening, howl, complaint

rare jeremiad, ululation

1.1A song, piece of music, or poem expressing grief or sorrow: the piper played a lament...

His music, comprising mostly songs, dance-tunes, laments, and some religious pieces, draws upon native tradition but was also influenced by European composers such as Vivaldi and Corelli.
Starting as a melancholic lament, the music slowly intruded into the action and eventually drowned out the longer speeches.
The show is packed full of stirring anthems, plaintive laments and unforgettable love songs sung by a first-class cast and backed by the Lyric Opera Orchestra.

Synonyms

dirge, requiem, elegy, funeral song/chant, burial hymn, dead march, keen, plaint, knell;

Scottish coronach

rare threnody, monody, epicedium

2A complaint: there were constant laments about the conditions of employment...

The same lament about constant meddling from politicians could be applied to education where since the eighties there has been reform followed by contradictory reform.
His constant lament was that the Tamil stage had not come of age.
Old-timers may find support for their constant laments that the game is steadily going downhill by citing the glittering example of 19th Century owner Chris Von der Ahe.

verb

1 [with object] Express passionate grief about: he was lamenting the death of his infant daughter [no object]: the women wept and lamented over him...

Therefore I seek your indulgence to allow me to lament my grief.
But our first duty as Christians is to mourn and lament such deaths, not to use violence in response to them.
The Minukku Vesham of the Brahmana, who laments the tragic deaths of his children before Arjuna, is one of the masterpiece roles of the sexagenarian actor.

Synonyms

mourn, grieve (for/over), weep for, shed tears for;

sorrow, wail, moan, groan, weep, cry, sob, keen, plain, howl, pine for, beat one's breast

rare ululate

2 [reporting verb] Express regret or disappointment about something: [with object]: she lamented the lack of shops in the town [with direct speech]: ‘We could have won,’ lamented the England captain...

The writer of the 1868 report lamented, ‘I regret that so few find their way into the Bible class.’
‘This was my seventh Challenge and I've come near each time, but never been a winner,’ a disappointed Smith lamented.
For years, dive operators and visitors to Phuket have lamented that the area lacked a decent sized wreck.

Synonyms

bemoan, bewail, complain about, deplore, regret, rue;

protest against, speak out against, object to, oppose, disagree with, fulminate against, inveigh against, rail at, make a fuss about, denounce

Derivatives

lamenter

noun ...

The Quivering presents three women in the roles of carer, siren and cultural lamenter - whatever that means!

Origin

Late Middle English (as a verb): from French lamenter or Latin lamentari, from lamenta (plural) 'weeping, wailing'.

单词	lament
释义	lament /ləˈmɛnt / noun 1A passionate expression of grief or sorrow: his mother’s night-long laments for his father [mass noun]: a song full of lament and sorrow... Dusty stood it on its head and made it a passionate lament of loneliness and love. An assessment of great music should allow for a wider variety of moods and expressions - lament, meander, laughter, rage, gallows humor, resignation, and much more. Cleopatra's response, though, suggests that she too intends suicide, and she confirms this in the passionate lament that follows his death. Synonyms wail, wailing, lamentation, moan, moaning, groan, weeping, crying, sob, sobbing, keening, howl, complaint rare jeremiad, ululation 1.1A song, piece of music, or poem expressing grief or sorrow: the piper played a lament... His music, comprising mostly songs, dance-tunes, laments, and some religious pieces, draws upon native tradition but was also influenced by European composers such as Vivaldi and Corelli. Starting as a melancholic lament, the music slowly intruded into the action and eventually drowned out the longer speeches. The show is packed full of stirring anthems, plaintive laments and unforgettable love songs sung by a first-class cast and backed by the Lyric Opera Orchestra. Synonyms dirge, requiem, elegy, funeral song/chant, burial hymn, dead march, keen, plaint, knell; Scottish coronach rare threnody, monody, epicedium 2A complaint: there were constant laments about the conditions of employment... The same lament about constant meddling from politicians could be applied to education where since the eighties there has been reform followed by contradictory reform. His constant lament was that the Tamil stage had not come of age. Old-timers may find support for their constant laments that the game is steadily going downhill by citing the glittering example of 19th Century owner Chris Von der Ahe. verb 1 [with object] Express passionate grief about: he was lamenting the death of his infant daughter [no object]: the women wept and lamented over* him... Therefore I seek your indulgence to allow me to lament my grief. But our first duty as Christians is to mourn and lament such deaths, not to use violence in response to them. The Minukku Vesham of the Brahmana, who laments the tragic deaths of his children before Arjuna, is one of the masterpiece roles of the sexagenarian actor. Synonyms mourn, grieve (for/over), weep for, shed tears for; sorrow, wail, moan, groan, weep, cry, sob, keen, plain, howl, pine for, beat one's breast rare* ululate 2 [reporting verb] Express regret or disappointment about something: [with object]: she lamented the lack of shops in the town [with direct speech]: ‘We could have won,’ lamented the England captain... The writer of the 1868 report lamented, ‘I regret that so few find their way into the Bible class.’ ‘This was my seventh Challenge and I've come near each time, but never been a winner,’ a disappointed Smith lamented. For years, dive operators and visitors to Phuket have lamented that the area lacked a decent sized wreck. Synonyms bemoan, bewail, complain about, deplore, regret, rue; protest against, speak out against, object to, oppose, disagree with, fulminate against, inveigh against, rail at, make a fuss about, denounce Derivatives lamenter noun ... The Quivering presents three women in the roles of carer, siren and cultural lamenter - whatever that means! Origin Late Middle English (as a verb): from French lamenter or Latin lamentari, from lamenta (plural) 'weeping, wailing'. Rhymes absent, accent, anent, ascent, assent, augment, bent, cement, cent, circumvent, consent, content, dent, event, extent, ferment, foment, forewent, forwent, frequent, gent, Ghent, Gwent, leant, lent, meant, misrepresent, misspent, outwent, pent, percent, pigment, rent, scent, segment, sent, spent, stent, Stoke-on-Trent, Tashkent, tent, torment, Trent, underspent, underwent, vent, went
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lament

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lamenter

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