lament
verb /ləˈment/
/ləˈment/
(formal)动词形式
| present simple I / you / we / they lament | /ləˈment/ /ləˈment/ |
| he / she / it laments | /ləˈments/ /ləˈments/ |
| past simple lamented | /ləˈmentɪd/ /ləˈmentɪd/ |
| past participle lamented | /ləˈmentɪd/ /ləˈmentɪd/ |
| -ing form lamenting | /ləˈmentɪŋ/ /ləˈmentɪŋ/ |
- lament something | lament that… | + speech to have or express very sad feelings about somebody/something
对…感到悲痛；痛惜；对…表示失望 - In the poem he laments the destruction of the countryside.
在那首诗里他对乡村遭到的破坏流露出悲哀。 - She sat alone weeping, lamenting her fate.
她独自坐着哭泣，哀叹自己的命运。
Collocations DictionaryLament is used with these nouns as the object:- decline
- fact
- failure
- …
词源late Middle English (as a verb): from French lamenter or Latin lamentari, from lamenta (plural) ‘weeping, wailing’. - In the poem he laments the destruction of the countryside.