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

• 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。
• 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。
• Is your husband such a precious bargain that you should be grovelling there, lamenting and groaning for him?
  难道你丈夫是这么一个宝贝，以致你要匍匐在那儿，为他痛哭哀号？
• 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。
• Katydids were lamenting fall's approach.
  蝈蝈儿正为秋天临近而哀鸣。
• It's no good lamenting over your past mistakes.
  懊悔你过去的错误是没有用的。
• Basically, what we see in this picture is a bird lamenting the fact that its home has been destroyed.
  我们主要能从这幅图上看到的是一只小鸟为自己的家被毁坏而悲伤。
• That has a bad effect: The young hear us lamenting a past that never was, and they think all roads must lead downhill.
  这是一个坏的影响：年轻人听到我们感叹过去的永远是，他们认为，所有道路必须带头下山。
• Jeremy Hunt, culture secretary, announced the new spending while lamenting that the UK was falling behind France and Germany in attracting Chinese tourists.
  英国文化大臣杰里米亨特（jeremyhunt）在宣布这项新的支出时，对英国在吸引中国游客方面落后于法国和德国表示遗憾。
• There is no point lamenting about what has happened in the past.
  事情都已经发生了，痛恨过去是没有意义的。