lamenting

英 [ləˈmentɪŋ]

美 [ləˈmentɪŋ]

v.  对…感到悲痛; 痛惜; 对…表示失望
lament的现在分词

现在分词：lamenting　

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

• The author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead.
  用悲伤语调写悲诗的作者。
• We should not waste our time and tears lamenting it.
  与其浪费时间和眼泪去哀悼，不如集中精力重整河山。
• Some cultural pessimists have gone further still, lamenting the strange tendency of adults to become as obsessed with the Harry Potter books as their children.
  一些文化悲观论者说得更过，他们对成年人变得像自己的孩子一样迷恋《哈利波特》的奇怪潮流发出了哀叹。
• I have wept my eyes out lamenting for thee, thou light of my eyes.
  我哭了我的眼睛为你自怨自艾，清高针对眼前。
• The poem opens by lamenting over the death of a young man.
  这首诗以哀悼一个青年的死开篇。
• She's always lamenting the lack of sports facilities in town.
  她总是抱怨伦敦缺少体育设施。
• I know I risk sounding like a bureaucrat in the French Ministry of Culture lamenting the dilution of the French tongue by English words like computer and Internet.
  我知道这种腔调听着像个法国文化部官僚在哀叹，法语被computer、Internet之类的英文词给侵蚀了。
• It sounds as though you were lamenting, a butterfly cooing like a dove.
  听起来你似在悲叹，一只如鸽子哀鸣的蝴蝶。
• The girl has been lamenting over her misfortunes.
  那个女孩一直在为自己的不幸而悲伤。
• Of course, lamenting the lack of anything worth watching has long been a national pastime.
  当然，长期以来，抱怨没什么值得看的节目已经成了一种全国性的消遣。