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

• She also recalled him saying his mother was a concubine and lamenting that his brothers were from different mothers.
  她还回忆到，拉登说过他的母亲是一个小妾，并为他的兄弟出自不同的母亲而叹息。
• She could feel her soul crying out in her, lamenting desolately.
  她感到自己的灵魂在内心呼唤，悲伤哀切。
• The footsteps came nearer, grew quiet and turned to low whispers like ghosts lamenting.
  那声音渐听渐近，没有了；换上的是低沉的戚戚声，如鬼低诉。
• 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。
• 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 New York Times published an article recently lamenting the death of conversation.
  《纽约时报》近日发表的一篇文章表达了对沟通对话被扼杀的惋惜之情。
• The girl has been lamenting over her misfortunes.
  那个女孩一直在为自己的不幸而悲伤。
• Katydids were lamenting fall's approach.
  蝈蝈儿正为秋天临近而哀鸣。
• 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。