laments

英 [ləˈments]

美 [ləˈments]

v. 对…感到悲痛; 痛惜; 对…表示失望
n. 挽歌; 哀诗; 悼词
lament的第三人称单数和复数

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。

As one veteran observer laments, a crucial mistake was made at the outset: not allowing the government and its foreign supporters a monopoly on the means of violence.
正如一位经验丰富的观察家所哀叹的，关键错误在一开始就铸成了：没有允许政府和其外国支持者完全主导对暴力的整治。
He laments the quality of potential engineers coming out of British schools.
他对英国学校出来的未来工程师的质量感到失望。
Instead he laments that contemporary politicians have very little sense of history.
他还哀叹现代的政治家们太缺少历史感。
These became a tradition in Israel and are written in the Laments.
而且在以色列中成了定例。这歌载在哀歌书上。
We heard her laments at midnight.
我们在半夜里听到她恸哭。
Vain laments, slim fantasy, crushed into small thorn headlong into the atrium.
徒劳的感叹，渺茫的幻想，碾碎成了小刺扎进了心房。
Meanwhile, Mufasa's wicked brother, Scar, laments the unfairness of his life.
这时，木法沙的兄弟，邪恶的刀疤，正为命运的不公平而痛苦不已。
He laments at the state of SOA initiatives in the enterprise.
他哀叹企业SOA项目的状况。
As cannon shells are falling around him, he laments," Maybe I went a little too far. "
正当炮弹在他周围降落，他悔恨，“可能我离开得有一些远了。”
We could hear her laments through the closed door.
我们可以听见她关着门在恸哭。