(adj.) vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression; 'lamenting sinners'; 'wailing mourners'; 'the wailing wind'; 'wailful bagpipes'; 'tangle her desires with wailful sonnets'- Shakespeare .
校对:蒂米
双语例句
We passed about a week together, during which time I was continually talking of poor Meyler and lamenting his precarious state of health. 哈里特·威尔逊.哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
Some were lamenting, and in restless motion; but, these were few. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
Laurie smiled, but he liked the spirit with which she took up a new purpose when a long-cherished one died, and spent no time lamenting. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特.小妇人.
Epidemic diseases, I believed, were often heralded by a gasping, sobbing, tormented, long-lamenting east wind. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
You are a mere infant, but you'll go next, Jo, and we'll be left lamenting, said Laurie, shaking his head over the degeneracy of the times. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特.小妇人.
Burns, lamenting that his share uptears the bed of the wee modest crimson-tipped flower and sorrowing that he has turned the Mousie from its bit o' leaves and stibble by the cruel coulter. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
And instead of having any shame or self-control, he will be always whining and lamenting on slight occasions. 柏拉图.理想国.
He did believe it, as the noise without shook the window, rattled at the door below, and went about the house clamouring and lamenting. 查尔斯·狄更斯.艰难时事.
The Roman writers were always lamenting the effeminacy of the age. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
She could feel her soul crying out in her, lamenting desolately. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
Keep your damned head and get the anger out and stop this cheap lamenting like a damned wailing wall. 欧内斯特·海明威.丧钟为谁而鸣.